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QUESTIONS FOR THE GAFCON AND GLOBAL SOUTH ANGLICAN LEADERSHIP: And an Appeal

Stephen Noll November 17, 2019

I would plead with you, especially those who are leaders in both entities: sit down patiently to explain yourselves to each other and to the rest of us during this time of crisis in the Communion.

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IS GAFCON A CHURCH? with a Reply to Global South Anglicans

Stephen Noll November 3, 2019

Preface: A Reply to the Global South Anglicans In a recent “Anglican Perspectives” video, Canon Phil Ashey of the American Anglican Council announces an “historic” development: the publication of a Covenant, approved in Cairo in early October 2019 by the …

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DIVORCE IN THE ANGLICAN FAMILY: A Look Back at the Break-Up

Stephen Noll October 22, 2019

In September 2019, Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, shared some reflections with clergy and laity in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on the state of the Anglican Communion. “I am saying ‘Anglican family’ rather than ‘Anglican Communion’ …

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CLAUSE 13 IMPLICATIONS: Reply to a Clergyman in the Church of England

Stephen Noll October 9, 2019

I received the following comment on my Contending Anglican blog from a clergyman in the Church of England with regard to my post on Jerusalem Declaration clause 13. I am posting his comment and my reply with his permission. NOTE: …

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WALKING TOGETHER … TO THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION: A Word from the Bishop Smooth-It-Away’s of the Anglican Church of Canada

Stephen Noll July 22, 2019

“Walking together” as proposed by the Bishop Smooth-it-away's of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Communion is a deadly ruse. Disciples of Jesus will stick to the hard and narrow way of obedience to His Word.

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++YORK ON INTERPRETING THE BIBLE: Moral Equivalence and Moral Equivocation

Stephen Noll July 9, 2019

The paradigm of disagreement, as he poses it, is a matter of moral equivalence. “Some say this, some say that.” “Some say God made sex for marriage, some say love conquers all.” “Who am I to judge?”

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CALLED TO UGANDA: Twenty Years On

Stephen Noll July 1, 2019

On the last Sunday in June 1999, I preached a sermon at the chapel of Uganda Christian University. My wife Peggy and I were on an exploratory trip, our first ever to Africa, to look at theological colleges in Uganda …

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ENCOUNTERING FALSE TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: Bishop Michael Fape

Stephen Noll June 28, 2019

N.B. In light of some current discussion of the Church of Nigeria and the “prosperity gospel, I am posting a relevant presentation from GAFCON 2013 by Bishop Michael Fape, who is author of Powers in Encounter with Power: Spiritual Warfare …

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IMAGE-BEARERS FOR GOD: Does Biblical Language for Man Matter?

Stephen Noll June 25, 2019

My goal in this essay is to make a case from Scripture for traditional language for man and for understanding how men and women, each in a particular way, are “image-bearers” of God.

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GOD THE FATHER’S DAY: A Patriarchal Convergence

Stephen Noll June 13, 2019

In recognition of the “solar eclipse” of Father’s Day (USA and UK) and Trinity Sunday, I am re-posting something I wrote last year, noting that in the absence of a feast in the church year for God the Father, Trinity …

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QUESTIONS FOR THE GAFCON AND GLOBAL SOUTH ANGLICAN LEADERSHIP: And an Appeal

Stephen Noll November 17, 2019

I would plead with you, especially those who are leaders in both entities: sit down patiently to explain yourselves to each other and to the rest of us during this time of crisis in the Communion.

Read More

IS GAFCON A CHURCH? with a Reply to Global South Anglicans

Stephen Noll November 3, 2019

Preface: A Reply to the Global South Anglicans In a recent “Anglican Perspectives” video, Canon Phil Ashey of the American Anglican Council announces an “historic” development: the publication of a Covenant, approved in Cairo in early October 2019 by the …

Read More

DIVORCE IN THE ANGLICAN FAMILY: A Look Back at the Break-Up

Stephen Noll October 22, 2019

In September 2019, Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, shared some reflections with clergy and laity in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on the state of the Anglican Communion. “I am saying ‘Anglican family’ rather than ‘Anglican Communion’ …

Read More

CLAUSE 13 IMPLICATIONS: Reply to a Clergyman in the Church of England

Stephen Noll October 9, 2019

I received the following comment on my Contending Anglican blog from a clergyman in the Church of England with regard to my post on Jerusalem Declaration clause 13. I am posting his comment and my reply with his permission. NOTE: …

Read More

WALKING TOGETHER … TO THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION: A Word from the Bishop Smooth-It-Away’s of the Anglican Church of Canada

Stephen Noll July 22, 2019

“Walking together” as proposed by the Bishop Smooth-it-away's of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Communion is a deadly ruse. Disciples of Jesus will stick to the hard and narrow way of obedience to His Word.

Read More

++YORK ON INTERPRETING THE BIBLE: Moral Equivalence and Moral Equivocation

Stephen Noll July 9, 2019

The paradigm of disagreement, as he poses it, is a matter of moral equivalence. “Some say this, some say that.” “Some say God made sex for marriage, some say love conquers all.” “Who am I to judge?”

Read More

CALLED TO UGANDA: Twenty Years On

Stephen Noll July 1, 2019

On the last Sunday in June 1999, I preached a sermon at the chapel of Uganda Christian University. My wife Peggy and I were on an exploratory trip, our first ever to Africa, to look at theological colleges in Uganda …

Read More

ENCOUNTERING FALSE TEACHINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: Bishop Michael Fape

Stephen Noll June 28, 2019

N.B. In light of some current discussion of the Church of Nigeria and the “prosperity gospel, I am posting a relevant presentation from GAFCON 2013 by Bishop Michael Fape, who is author of Powers in Encounter with Power: Spiritual Warfare …

Read More

IMAGE-BEARERS FOR GOD: Does Biblical Language for Man Matter?

Stephen Noll June 25, 2019

My goal in this essay is to make a case from Scripture for traditional language for man and for understanding how men and women, each in a particular way, are “image-bearers” of God.

Read More

GOD THE FATHER’S DAY: A Patriarchal Convergence

Stephen Noll June 13, 2019

In recognition of the “solar eclipse” of Father’s Day (USA and UK) and Trinity Sunday, I am re-posting something I wrote last year, noting that in the absence of a feast in the church year for God the Father, Trinity …

Read More

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