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
COMMENTARY ON THE GAFCON LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part Seven: Reaching Out to God’s World
The Statement Group decided to bring together under one heading “Reaching Out to God’s World” - the themes of two days of the Conference – “God’s World and “God’s Strategy”; for indeed they belong together. We cannot reach out to …
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 …
COMMENTARY ON THE GAFCON LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part Six: Reordering the Communion
… And so, the Global Anglican Future Conference met in Jerusalem in June 2008. A reformation had begun. In the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration, the 2008 Global Anglican Future Conference took up the challenge of restoring biblical authority (and 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, …
COMMENTARY ON THE 2018 GAFCON LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part Five: Reforming God’s Church
The second main section of the Letter is titled “Reforming God’s Church.” It should come as no surprise that “Reforming God’s Church” should be the longest section of the Letter to the Churches from a Conference held as a result …
COMMENTARY ON THE 2018 GAFCON LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part Four: Proclaiming God’s Gospel
As agreed at our first meeting, the Statement Group followed the topics of the Conference plenaries. The first section on “Proclaiming God’s Gospel” falls into two main segments: the first part defines the Gospel and the second part defends it …
COMMENTARY ON THE 2018 GAFCON LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part Three: Introducing the Letter
This is the third of seven posts explaining the “Letter to the Churches.” In this third entry, I begin to exposit the text of the Gafcon Letter to the Churches, section by section, beginning with the Introduction. As mentioned in …
COMMENTARY ON THE 2018 GAFCON LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part Two: Coming to One Mind
“For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us…” (Acts 15:28). How does a church council go about coming to one mind?” What an awesome task! The role of the Conference Statement, it seems to me, is …
COMMENTARY ON THE GAFCON 2018 LETTER TO THE CHURCHES Part One: Preparations
A day or two prior to the presentation of the Gafcon Letter to the Churches, people would come to me and ask how it was going. “I am not a woman,” I’d reply, “but I think it feels something like …