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January 24, 2014
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' Acts 17:26-28
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 Recommending "A Canterbury Tale"By the Rev. Canon Phil Ashey Dr. Gerald Bray recently released an important essay in the Churchman on the significance of both GAFCON 2013 as an event, and as a movement that has the potential to restore health and unity to the Anglican Communion. I highly commend "A Canterbury Tale" to you and encourage you to give the whole a good read. Gerald Bray is full of praise for GAFCON as a representative gathering of the whole church - and not just a gathering of bishops as one finds in the Lambeth Conferences. "The fact that the Lambeth Conference is exclusively episcopal is now a real weakness... Why should only bishops attend a worldwide gathering of Anglicans?" (p. 296) He has put his finger on one of the distinguishing characteristics of a church council (as I have written elsewhere) - namely that it represents all orders of the church. In this respect, Bray notes how GAFCON 2013 stands out for its representative gathering of the whole communion: "No other group of Anglicans could stage an event with as broad a participation, and that alone ought to persuade people to take it seriously." (p. 291) In fact, he is bold to say that GAFCON offers the only hope forward for the Anglican Communion as it faces continuing divisions over Christian essentials... Read more. |
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Marching for Life in the Cold
Juicy Ecumenism January 22, 2014
by James Tonkowich
Yesterday it snowed here in Washington, DC with a high temperature of twenty-six. Today will be sunny with a high of only eighteen and snow all over the ground. Best to stay warm in my home office venturing out only to buy the ingredients for a hardy stew.
But forty-one years ago, on January 22, 1973, in its misbegottenRoe v. Wade decision, the U. S. Supreme Court unleashed a moral plague that has since then claimed the lives of fifty-five million (that's 55,000,000) unborn Americans. So I'm freezing on the National Mall with hundreds of thousands of men and women, children and youth at the annual March for Life. The marches in Washington and other cities are perhaps more important than ever as a counter to pro-abortion forces that are increasingly marked with hostile, extreme, and irrational fanaticism...Read more.
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Gambia Mourns Death of Archbishop Tilewa Johnson
January 23, 2014
by Omar Waly
The death has been announced late Tuesday evening of one of the most prominent religious scholars in the country. The late Rtd. Rev. Dr. Solomon Telewa Johnson, Anglican Bishop of Banjul, and the Ninth Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of the Province of West Africa, who was to turn 60 next month, fell at a lawn tennis court before being pronounced dead at the Medical Research Council (MRC).
News of Archbishop Tilewa's passing was received with great shock by many Gambians, as he was seen as a great role model due to his self-comportment and dedication to the service of God... Read more.
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The Late Archbishop S. Tilewa JohnsonStatement by the Archbishop of KenyaJanuary 23, 2014 It was with shock and great sadness that we heard about the sudden death of our brother Primate, Solomon Tilewa Johnson, earlier this week. In October last year we shared fellowship at GAFCON 2013 here in Nairobi and we thank God for his commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ whom he served with a robust faith and cheerful energy throughout his ministry. He was a man of global vision and his death, so untimely from our human perspective, has deprived not only the Church of the Province of West Africa, but the whole Anglican Communion of a talented leader. We assure Mama Priscilla, his family and the Church he served of our prayers in their loss, that they may know the presence of the Prince of Peace who has conquered death and from whose love nothing can separate us. The Most Rev'd Dr Eliud Wabukala, Archbishop of Kenya and Bishop, All Saints Cathedral Diocese, Nairobi
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The world's most ancient Christian communities are being destroyed - and no one cares
The WeekJanuary 23, 2014 By Michael Brendan Dougherty Like many Coptic Christians in Egypt, Ayman Nabil Labib had a tattoo of the cross on his wrist. And like 17-year-old men everywhere, he could be assertive about his identity. But in 2011, after Egypt's revolution, that kind of assertiveness could mean trouble. Ayman's Arabic-language teacher told him to cover his tattoo in class. Instead of complying, the young man defiantly pulled out the cross that hung around his neck, making it visible. His teacher flew into a rage and began choking him, goading the young man's Muslim classmates by saying, "What are you going to do with him?" Ayman's classmates then beat him to death. False statements were given to police, and two boys were taken into custody only after Ayman's terror-stricken family spoke out. Ayman's suffering is not an isolated case in Egypt or the region... Read more.
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