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EASTER OCTAVE: Meditations for Holy Week and Easter

Stephen Noll April 12, 2019

Dear Online Friends, I gave up “contending” for Lent, but it struck me as appropriate during Holy Week not to take up the sword but to “enter with joy upon the meditation of those mighty acts by which you have …

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STORMING LAMBETH: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed

Stephen Noll February 27, 2019

As I see it, the question “Was 2008 the last Lambeth Conference?” misses the target. The last authoritative council of Anglican bishops worldwide occurred in 1998. That was not so apparent at the time, but by 2008 it had become …

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“PAY ATTENTION TO POWER”: Anglican Hypocrisy, Part Two

Stephen Noll February 24, 2019

Here is my prediction. Canterbury will not revoke the ban on the same-sex spouses, even while expressing deep sympathy for their plight. The bishops of the Episcopal Church and their celebrity Presiding Bishop will all show up in force. The …

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“MEXIT”: Methodists, Anglicans and the Limits of Disagreement (UPDATED)

Stephen Noll February 21, 2019

BREAKING NEWS (26 February 2019). The United Methodist General Conference voted by a 55% to 45% margin to maintain its stance that “the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.” It adopted the “Traditional Plan,” which included a number of …

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LAMBETH HYPOCRISY: Disinviting the Spouses

Stephen Noll February 17, 2019

As I see it, this latest move is hypocrisy squared: shameful and shameless.

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“SIX RESOLUTIONS FOR LAMBETH”: A Quick Response to Ephraim Radner

Stephen Noll February 13, 2019

On 12 February, Dr. Ephraim Radner sought to “clean up the playing field” with “Six Resolutions” for Lambeth” in 2020. As one who has written extensively on the state of the Anglican Communion – I commented recently on Andrew Goddard’s …

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WHEN IS “GOOD DISAGREEMENT” NOT GOOD? When It Contradicts God’s Word

Stephen Noll February 11, 2019

So let’s remember that the Lambeth Conference was not conceived as a garden party or a photo op but rather as a solemn assembly of bishops who have vowed to “banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrine contrary …

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“LIVING IN LOVE AND FAITH”: Tree or Billboard?

Stephen Noll February 5, 2019

I doubt the final Living in Love and Faith Report will be lively, lovely, or faithful. I suspect it may function more like the billboard in Ogden Nash’s "Song of the Road": I think that I shall never see a …

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IMPAIRED COMMUNION: A Flawed Compromise in the Episcopal Church

Stephen Noll January 31, 2019

When all is said and done, why don’t the Communion Partner bishops simply agree to officiate the same-sex services themselves.

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“TAKING SWEET COUNSEL TOGETHER”: Lambeth Edition

Stephen Noll January 27, 2019

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the photo of the Toronto “marriage” says it all. Anyone who is not appalled at the idea of a bishop of the church of God being married to a same-sex partner, …

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