The Rev David Charles,
Assistant Curate, Willingdon St Mary (Chichester): is now Priest-in-Charge, Waldron All Saints (same diocese).
Assistant Curate, Willingdon St Mary (Chichester): is now Priest-in-Charge, Waldron All Saints (same diocese).
Team Vicar, Portishead St Peter; and Chaplain, Mother’s Union (Bath and Wells): to be Vicar, Highbridge St John (same diocese).
The Rev Dr John Davies, Vicar, Melbourne St Michael; and Assistant Curate, Ticknall, Smisby, and Stanton By Bridge, Barrow on Trent with Twyford and Swarkestone; and Chairman, Industrial Mission in Derbyshire (Derby): is now Dean of Derby (same diocese).
The Ven Peter Hancock, Archdeacon of Meon (Portsmouth): to be Bishop of Basingstoke (Winchester).
The Rt Rev James Langstaff, Bishop of Lynn (Norwich): to be Bishop of Rochester (Rochester).
Opposing sides in the debate over Women Bishops legislation will join together in prayer at Ripon Cathedral next week, Friday July 9th, as the Church of England’s General Synod meets in York. A Prayer Vigil is being held in the Cathedral from 10am to 2pm on the day that General Synod’s five day session opens, [...]
Derek Walker speaks to the creators of Rev, BBC2’s new comedy drama about a rural vicar thrown into urban life. In Dad’s Army, he was wet; in The Simpsons he is condescending; Dick Emery’s was insincere; Father Ted (like All Gas and Gaiters) gave us an unholy trinity of the dipso womanizer, the hopeless and [...]
What is irritating many Episcopalians in the United States this Summer month of June is their perception of how the American Presiding Bishop Most Reverend Jefferts Shori was treated when in England. As the story was reported with the dateline of Linthicum Heights Maryland by Episcopal News Service’s national correspondent Mary Francis Schonjborg, June 16, 2020, “Katharine Jefferts Schori preached and presided at a Eucharist June 13 at Southwark Cathedral in London, she carried her mitre, or bishop’s hat, rather than wear it.”
The progressive website Episcopal Café has a number of reports, and this more “aggravated” comment appears there:
Remember this:
He is heaping all the insults and “punishments” he can onto TEC so *WE* will pull out of the communion. He wants *US* to walk away (and so do the Duncanites and so called GD).
We must simply swallow the insults and stay in. The world is watching and one side of this will be seen as acting Christ-like. The other side will be seen for what they are.
James Holloway
Posted by polysloguy | June 16, 2010 8:17 PM
“I believe that the Bible gives us a general view of God’s will: those qualities of righteousness, justice, freedom, and peace to which God calls us and which we are to pursue. But the Bible does not usually lay out detailed policy prescriptions for how we are to pursue those goals in modern societies. In an imperfect world where our knowledge is limited and everyone’s motives are mixed, we have to make political judgments about how best to achieve the measure of justice, freedom, and peace that is possible under the circumstances.”
— Alan F.H. Wisdom
Vice President for Research and Programs
Institute on Religion & Democracy
On the basis of Biblical Theological Reflection and its study paper on that subject, the Presbyterian Church USA committee on Presbyterian-Israel policy is formed as a Christian and social-justice issue, as it recommends this policy to the Church’s General Assembly 2010 for passage. Yes, other areas of reason and argument for the policy making recommendations come into play. In this report and commentary, in this the second of three parts on the Presbyterian-Israel policy recommendations to its General Assembly, Biblical Theological Reflection is mostly and even primarily addressed.
In this article, the writer cites some interviews on the Church’s social policy vis a vis Israel in an effort to continue representing the various viewpoints of Presbyterians towards the issue most important to the committee: That is peace in the Middle East. For a fuller and more complete look at the issues involved in the first of the three part series, please go here on the web.
The third part of the series will comment and report on the Kairos Document, also called Kairos report, that recommends various more strict actions towards Israel as social policy towards that nation– if so adopted by Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly it will be policy. This article is written prior to July, 2010 when their General Assembly meets.
In a quick look at the third in the series, here is the kind of thing explored and recommended by the committee, based on their Christian view of religious social policy for Presbyterians. To this writer’s mind, the subject of their views expressed in their paper on Biblical Theological Reflection (found here on the web), influences Christians in the United States and elsewhere, and is of interest beyond its own Church. Jewish Americans have expressed their firm and resolute distaste and opposition to the committee’s report, saying that if adopted, Presbyterians will be advocating an end to the State of Israel as it exists today and from its foundation in 1948.
Here is where the committee of Presbyterians have taken their Biblical Theological Reflection, and I am speaking of their purpose being to create peace, which is their intent. This writer considers this a key social-justice issue for Presbyterians and other Churches, and significantly represents an attitude that came to bring about the path to the Presbyterian committee adoption and recommendation of the Kairos Document.
More on that document in the third part of the series. First a comment on the Presbyterian Committee by Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Los Angeles based Wiesenthal Center, who “Newsweek” describes as an important and leading Rabbi in the United States. This comment by Rabbi Cooper from a speech given in Israel in 2010 reflects a wide swath of American Jewish opinion in its mainstream in America. Kairos is not a popular or good way to work for peace, is the prime position of Jewish Americans.
