Image:  What can be done about it? The Episcopal Church is by no means the biggest loser but a new Presiding Bishop and his bishops are talking up realignment and restructuring as they watch the numbers drop year over year hoping to reverse the trend. You can read Bishop Sean Rowe's aspirations here: https://www.oaoa.com/people/religion/sean-rowe-wants-to-realign-the-episcopal-church/ Reading through the various options on the situation it looks very much like the bishops are rearranging the deck chairs on the SS TEC but with fewer chairs. The bishops met at the DoubleTree Hilton Minn ..read more

Image:  CoN Archbishop Henry Ndukuba supported the non-members in their attempt to take over the church building and insert a CoN priest. Several Christ Anglican Church members, along with the Rector, Canon Kingsley Obiorah, and Bishop Ken Ross (Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Rocky Mountains) were assaulted when a group of the dissenters, led by CoN Bishop Augustine Unuigbe, entered the church during a regularly scheduled service. (Videos of the assaults went viral on social media and the event was reported by VOL.) Bishop Ross enlisted the assistance of Bishop Derek Jones of t ..read more

Image:  "In these 12 years, I cannot think of a single moment when I have come in here and the hair on the back of my neck has not stood up at the privilege of being allowed to sit on these Benches...." said Welby. He admitted a head had to roll. Abuse victims say they were "dismayed" and "disgusted" by the speech, saying it made no mention of remorse for survivors and struck too "frivolous" a tone with jokes. It revealed their frustration at the tone of Welby's occasionally jovial farewell speech, delivered during a debate on homelessness in the House of Lords on December 5. The arch ..read more

Image:  For all of the significance the sacrament of the Lord's Supper holds in Christian liturgy and theology, it is sparsely mentioned in scripture, and only within a few of those passages are we given insight into criteria for partaking in it. The clearest passage is 1 Corinthians 11:27-29. Here Paul instructs the church that we are to "examine ourselves" before we come to the sacrament, and this examination includes discerning the body of Christ, lest we eat and drink judgment upon ourselves. To discern the body encompasses several things. The sacraments communicate the body and b ..read more

Image:  Men fall in private long before they fall in public. --- J. C. Ryle For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be. -- John Stott The Church of England is beset by financial troubles, heresy, and, worst of all, no particular sense of what the Church is for or why it exists at all --- The Guardian Dear Brothers and S ..read more

Image:  And migration is what is happening on the ground: Africans and Asians and Latin Americans are coming to North America. I live in an urban area, which is where most immigrant communities are located. However, we are hearing about immigrant communities resettling to non-metropolitan areas, so immigrant communities in small towns around the country will continue to grow. Similarly, people who live out in rural areas may not often have direct interactions with people who live in immigrant communities, but for them, the world is at their fingertips. Folks who live in small-town Ida ..read more

Image:  Each day, the Synod opened with a young man preaching. And each day a frail Dr. Packer leaned forward, rested his face in his hands, and with his eyes shining, exclaimed, "Oh goody! Daniel, we get to hear the Word of the Lord preached!" He remarked throughout the week how excellent this young preacher was and how nourished he felt by him. In awe, I observed him watch the young preacher. Here was a man who had written one of the most important theological books of all time, Knowing God, and yet, at eighty-eight years old, he was still desperately hungry to hear the Gospel confi ..read more

Image:  Lewis's contemporaries immediately recognized the book's significance. His friend Owen Barfield remarked, there may be a piece of contemporary writing in which precision of thought, liveliness of expression and depth of meaning unite with the same felicity, but I have not come across it. Today, The Abolition of Man ranks seventh on National Review's list of the most important nonfiction works of the 20th century. The philosopher Peter Kreeft lists it among six "books to read to save Western Civilization." The work is crucial for our time because it diagnoses a philosophical sh ..read more

Image:  Campolo, was a champion of 'Red Letter' Christianity, highlighting the words of Jesus in the gospels. The Baptist pastor and sociologist argued that caring for the poor was an integral part of proclaiming the gospel. The second was Hal Lindsey an end-of-the world apologist who sought to scare people with the imminent return of Christ that could leave them behind if they were unsaved. He was 95. Despite his prognostications, Jesus has not returned and is apparently not immediately doing so even though so called American apocalyptic "prophets" still predict his return based on t ..read more

Image:  The Christian Institute's Director Ciarán Kelly told Christians not to give up on challenging the dangerous proposals: "It's deeply disappointing that the Commons has agreed to endorse this dangerous and divisive Bill. I'm grateful to the many MPs who spoke and voted against it, and the fight is not over. "We know that the more people know about assisted suicide, the less they like it. Those MPs who supported the principle of the Bill but have concerns about its practical implications must now take the time to scrutinise it properly. They will find the promised safeguards are ..read more