Anglican Down Under: Spiritual and Sacred Links

Please pray for the Ebola Crisis and for those working for a cure; for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Iraq; for the persecuted church and in particular in Nigeria, Tanzania, Iran, Pakistan and in particular for Asia Bibi for whom a petition has passed 200,000 signatures, for the Central African Republic; for peace in Ukraine, Egypt, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

13. Iraq Region:

Bishop: 90% of Orthodox Christians in Iraq diplaced - Al Monitor

http://tinyurl.com/ps7fev2

Surviving an ISIS Massacre - NYT Vimeo [warning graphic violence shown]

http://vimeo.com/105042508

more Media Reports from FRRME

http://frrme.org/media-summary-23-october-2014/

14. Topical Prayers - Church of England

http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk

Ebola death toll tops 4,900 out of more than 10,000 cases: WHO - Christian Today

http://tinyurl.com/k2mog5y

Statement – WHO

http://tinyurl.com/qd4oetc

Nigeria: 2 pastors killed in attack by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria - Christian Today

http://tinyurl.com/npxnzu3

Tanzania: Tanzanian teacher murdered in church, pastor and wife on Zanzibar attacked by extremists – WWM

http://tinyurl.com/mohchxu

Iran: Three Christians face six year sentences in remote prisons – CSW

http://tinyurl.com/nhr6tf5

Pakistan: Petition to overturn Asia Bibi's death penalty surpasses 200,000 signatures - Christian Today

http://tinyurl.com/nvxd5hy

CAR: Priest kidnapped, dozens killed amidst renewed violence in C. African Rep – WWM

http://tinyurl.com/nnlvo7p

South Carolina: Prayers from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS

15. Sunday Programme - current affairs with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mh74z

16. Food for thought

Conflict or Mutual Enrichment? Why Science and Theology Need to Talk to Each Other - Alister McGrath – ABC

http://tinyurl.com/pole5gh

Understand concept of ‘infidel’ to understand risks of Islamic radicalization - Jacob Zenn – WWM

http://tinyurl.com/pbw6td6

How to save a diocese - Ian Paul

http://tinyurl.com/p2g6qwf

How to prevent the extinction of the Church of England - Gillan Scott

http://tinyurl.com/nfehy5f

7 Reasons Some Churches Experience Revitalization - Thom Rainer

http://tinyurl.com/kc8e5n8

FINALLY

17. Why Baptism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlqGzvEjMNo

18. Teaching English in South East Asia - TSM Video

http://www.tsm.edu/SouthEastAsia

19. Kyrie - Duruflé - Somerville Choir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEW5iosWnTI

God bless you

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Anglican Down Under

Welcome to this blog on Anglican, theological, biblical and other matters, mostly missional or liturgical (but I reserve the right to write about cricket and politics). It is grounded in some islands at the bottom of the world which, together with a large island to our west, constitute fabulous Down Under.

I have two related blogs which I post on less frequently:

Hermeneutics and Human Dignity

Resourcing Preaching and Worship Down Under

I am Bishop of the Diocese of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ACANZP). I am trying to write in ways which contribute to the flourishing of the church of God - a church represented in the Anglican Communion, in the Anglican churches of these islands and, of course, in my Diocese. You will judge whether I am succeeding or not!

Pearls

Show us anything clearly set forth in Holy Scripture that we do not teach and we will teach it. Show us anything in our teaching or practice is clearly contrary to Holy Scripture, and we will abandon it.

Stephen Neill

For the glory of God is a human being fully alive, and the glory of humanity is the vision of God.

St Irenaeus

Fundamentally the Gospel is obsessed with the idea of the unity of human society.

Masure

We have returned to the Apostles and the old Catholic Fathers. We have planted no new religion, but only preserved the old that was undoubtedly founded and used by the Apostles of Christ and other holy Fathers of the Primitive Church.

Bishop Jewel

Preachers shall behave themselves modestly and soberly in every department of their life. But especially shall they see to it that they teach nothing in the way of a sermon, which they would have religiously held and believed by the people, save what is agreeable to the teaching of the Old or New Testament, and what the Catholic fathers and ancient bishops have collected from this selfsame doctrine.

Canon 6 from the 1571 Bishop’s Convocation

Kent: "See better, Lear, and let me still remain."

William Shakespeare

For the clarity that we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear.

Wittgenstein

Justice is eternal, and doesn't depend at all on human conventions.

Montesquieu

The real challenge of Islam to Western intellectual discourse is for us to ask ourselves whether our unprecedented modern experiment of conducting political life with no transcendent values is really working out as well as we once hoped.

Harvey Cox

The long-term happiness of a society depends on how individuals behave towards each other, how families hold together, and how leaders keep the trust of people.

William Hague

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

John Neuhaus

To be an evangelical is not, first and foremost, about doctrinal correctness, but about a passion for the gospel of salvation from sin through Christ for eternity.

John Richardson

Neither may we ... lightly esteem what hath been allowed as fit in the judgement of antiquity, and by the long continued practice of the whole church; from which unnecessarily to swerve, experience hath never as yet found it safe.

Richard Hooker (Lawes, V.7.1)

The function of the Christian canon was to separate the apostolic witness from the ongoing tradition of the church, whose truth was continually in need of being tested by the apostolic faith.

Brevard S. Childs

Every word of God proves true. (Proverbs 30:5)

If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill the blood of whoever confronts them with this question. They forbid rational speculation, and strive to kill their adversaries. This is why truth became thoroughly silenced and concealed.

Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi

Change comes through ordinary working people organising themselves to struggle for a better world day in, day out.

Morning Star newspaper editorial Tuesday 5 May 2015

"In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl."

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Spiritual and Sacred Links - Monday 27th October 2014

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