Setting up a personal website is a troubling business. I am not speaking about the trouble of rummaging through thirty years of hard and soft files of miscellanea, much of it occasional in purpose and often only half-finished. No, the trouble is deeper: what is a Christian minister, make that a Christian of any stripe, doing exalting himself on the worldwide web? Well, here are my excuses.
Author: Stephen Noll
LETTER TO THE CHURCHES: THE TEXT WITH COMMENTARY by Stephen Noll – Free Download
LETTER TO THE CHURCHES: THE TEXT WITH COMMENTARY by Stephen Noll is now available as a free download from Anglican House (GO HERE). “Once more the Anglican world is indebted to Dr Noll for his writings. This time he expounds …
ALL THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE: A Sermon for St. Michael and All Angels
No, “invisible things” are real entities that can never be seen by our mere human senses. The first Soviet astronaut, Yuri Gagarin, followed shortly by the Anglican bishop John Robinson, thus made a major category mistake when he reported he …
LAMBETH DIARY WEEK THREE: Diary from the Third Week of the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops August 2-9, 1998
“This has been an historic session,” announced the moderator Archbishop Robin Eames as he announced that Resolution 1.10 [or A 31] on Human Sexuality had passed by the margin of 526 for, 70 against, and 45 abstaining. Indeed it was. …
LAMBETH DIARY WEEK TWO: Diary from the Second Week of the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, July 26-August 1, 1998
Setting I began my week with a memorable pair of images that I think may foreshadow the future of the Anglican Communion. On my way to worship early Sunday morning, I suddenly made a turn and was confronted with the …
LAMBETH DIARY 1998: Diary from the First Week of the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops July 18-25, 1998
Note: This is the 20th anniversary of the historic 1998 Lambeth Conference. I was present there, representing the American Anglican Council (AAC). In this capacity I filed a three-week “Diary” of the Conference. I am posting this diary without revision, …
Post-Gafcon Contention 1: REPLY TO FULCRUM ON GAFCON 2018
Following Gafcon 2018, Fulcrum – “Renewing the Evangelical Centre” – published a “Response to GAFCON 2018” to the Conference and its “Letter to the Churches.” In a spirit of theological engagement, I am posting this Reply (in red). Note: Although …
BULLYING THE PRIMATES ACROSS THE RUBICON
The Gafcon movement is standing firm on the Gospel side of the Rubicon and saying “No, we won’t go with you.” This obstinacy, especially in light of Gafcon 2018, is pushing the Communion Establishment one step further: to bully the …
THE BELLS OF CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN with a Postscript on South Carolina
This past Sunday afternoon I attended a marvelous concert by a youth bell choir titled the “Bells of Christ Church.” The “Christ Church” referred to in the program is Christ Church Anglican in Savannah, Georgia. The program went on to …
Contention 8: PREPARING FOR GAFCON IN SEVEN CONTENTIONS
I have been preparing for Gafcon for a long time – a quarter century at least, although I did not know it at the time. Last year I began to assemble and edit my writings in a book, The Global …
Contention 7: LAMBETH SPEAKS PLAINLY (That Was Then)
The year 1998 was the last time the Lambeth Conference spoke plainly. That it did so was something of a miracle. The Communion Establishment had carefully prepared an agenda whereby the innovations of homosexual ordinations and same-sex “blessings” in the …