Anglican Down Under: Sacred and Spiritual Links

Please pray for the Church of England, for Christians and all facing persecution and crime in Syria and Iraq including The Christians being held hostage and for refugees facing winter and hunger; for the persecuted church and in particular in Nigeria, Egypt and Libya; for peace in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza; and for the Diocese of South Carolina.

11. Topical Prayers - Church of England

http://tinyurl.com/6wnk2pk

Prayers for the Church of England from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/mvux2u3

Syria: 72 Assyrian Christian families captured, 50 besieged by IS after Syria attack - WWM

http://tinyurl.com/l5lyfcb

The greatest weapon against ISIS? Forgiveness - Martin Saunders - Christian Today

http://tinyurl.com/pm38j63

What ISIS Really Wants - Graeme Wood - Atlantic

http://tinyurl.com/o3tn7p7

Who are the Assyrian Christians? - Carey Lodge

http://tinyurl.com/oe7akrg

Bishop accuses Turkey over Syrian Christians - AFP

http://tinyurl.com/psyt2zf

Libya: Copt Church forms committee to evacuate Egyptians from Libya - Agencia Fides

http://tinyurl.com/p3yurq6

Egypt: Prayers for persecutors answered - Open Doors

http://tinyurl.com/pqozbew

Nigeria: 'Tireless' missionary kidnapped in Nigeria - WWM

http://tinyurl.com/qxw9ew5

South Carolina: Prayers from Lent and Beyond

http://tinyurl.com/kssn33y

CURRENT AFFAIRS

12. Sunday Programme - with Edward Stourton - BBC Radio 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053sbq7

Food for thought

13. Who wrote the Bible? - Jeffrey Kranz

http://tinyurl.com/nm22aqy

A Pattern Among Fallen Pastors – Lessons for Us All - Garrett Kell

http://tinyurl.com/o5gh4g4

What is 'the Common Good'? Community, Communication and Personal Communion - Oliver O'Donovan

http://tinyurl.com/l4rbawd

One-Third of Audience for Christian Books, Radio, TV, and Movies Is Unchurched - Christianity Today

http://tinyurl.com/nd6g8yj

Do Digital Decisions Disciple? - Christianity Today

http://tinyurl.com/lpvvu2a

FINALLY

14. Lord, For thy tender mercy's sake - Richard Farrant - Kampen Boys Choir, NL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKBC0YkB1k

15. Name above - Nikki Fletcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvX91-VUolk

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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, March 2, 2015

Sacred and Spiritual Links - Monday 2 March 2015

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