http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/ en robforsyth@sydney.anglican.asn.au Copyright 2012 2012-03-05T00:16:07+10:00 http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/an-agenda-for-sunday-meetings Here’s a Contemporary Sunday liturgy that has not been included in Common Prayer: Resources for gospel-shaped gatherings. What do you think? Here’s a Contemporary Sunday liturgy that has not been included in Common Prayer: Resources for gospel-shaped gatherings. What do you think? 2012-03-05T00:16:07+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/an-agenda-for-sunday-meetings http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/mp3_files_from_corinth I wonder whether the provision of MP3s of sermons of great preachers is in danger of creating another Corinthian problem. I wonder whether the provision of MP3s of sermons of great preachers is in danger of creating another Corinthian problem. 2010-03-09T13:48:55+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/mp3_files_from_corinth http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/attacking_abbott_and_chastity A comment on Richard Glover's ABC local radio program captured for me what's been happening to Tony Abbott this week: there is a dangerous anti-Christian sectarianism in Australia. A comment on Richard Glover's ABC local radio program captured for me what's been happening to Tony Abbott this week: there is a dangerous anti-Christian sectarianism in Australia. 2010-01-30T11:01:14+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/attacking_abbott_and_chastity http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/on_power_and_polity (This really happened) Rector to new parish councillor: 'I think parish councils are totally unnecessary. I like to make all the important decisions.' (This really happened) Rector to new parish councillor: 'I think parish councils are totally unnecessary. I like to make all the important decisions.' 2010-01-19T00:12:18+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/on_power_and_polity http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/giving_clergy_a_dressing_down 'Why are clergy the worst dressed people in church?' said a lay friend of mine the other day. 'Why are clergy the worst dressed people in church?' said a lay friend of mine the other day. 2010-01-03T12:30:30+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/giving_clergy_a_dressing_down http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/over_egging_the_evangelistic_pudding If you truly love Christ, and other people, how could you not be passionate about promoting the gospel? And yet, sometimes I wonder whether we do damage to it by kind of overselling it. If you truly love Christ, and other people, how could you not be passionate about promoting the gospel? And yet, sometimes I wonder whether we do damage to it by kind of overselling it. 2009-09-22T14:19:51+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/over_egging_the_evangelistic_pudding http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/worship_a_fruitless_debate "If you don't go to church to worship I don't know what we go for" "If you don't go to church to worship I don't know what we go for" 2009-09-06T13:01:12+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/worship_a_fruitless_debate http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/solution_for_our_oprah_style_services The-group-formerly-known-as-the-Archbishop's-Liturgical-Panel has been beavering away and is about to unleash a new website with resources for people constructing of our church services. The-group-formerly-known-as-the-Archbishop's-Liturgical-Panel has been beavering away and is about to unleash a new website with resources for people constructing of our church services. 2009-08-23T13:06:26+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/solution_for_our_oprah_style_services http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/why_being_anglican_matters I am speaking at a conference in Adelaide on what has become more and more a controversial world-wide question. I am speaking at a conference in Adelaide on what has become more and more a controversial world-wide question. 2009-08-09T13:01:39+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/why_being_anglican_matters http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/why_is_christian_music_so_dull I find as I move around the churches, contemporary Christian music certainly doesn't... I find as I move around the churches, contemporary Christian music certainly doesn't... 2009-07-26T13:06:42+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/why_is_christian_music_so_dull http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/god_in_control_hmmmm "God is in control" - is it the most helpful thing to say to anyone in crisis? Today a bit of reflection on theology... "God is in control" - is it the most helpful thing to say to anyone in crisis? Today a bit of reflection on theology... 2009-07-10T14:01:26+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/god_in_control_hmmmm http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/eye_of_media_storm It's not often you find yourself two days in a row on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald and twice being phoned at the crack of dawn to appear on ABC breakfast radio. It's not often you find yourself two days in a row on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald and twice being phoned at the crack of dawn to appear on ABC breakfast radio. 2009-06-12T13:01:07+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/eye_of_media_storm http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/church I am frankly sick of "leaders" ruining the atmosphere of the meeting/service and disrupting the focus on God with half-baked comic lines. I am frankly sick of "leaders" ruining the atmosphere of the meeting/service and disrupting the focus on God with half-baked comic lines. 2009-05-31T13:03:57+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/church http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/did_i_take_connect09_too_far It started the Friday before with a call from Radio 2GB about an offensive poster appearing around Sydney... Virgins wanted. It started the Friday before with a call from Radio 2GB about an offensive poster appearing around Sydney... Virgins wanted. 2009-05-15T13:04:31+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/did_i_take_connect09_too_far http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/you_think_i_am_grumpy Here are God's basic rules of how we should live. A brief list of sacred obligations and solemn moral precepts and right at the end of it is 'Don't envy your buddy's cow.' Here are God's basic rules of how we should live. A brief list of sacred obligations and solemn moral precepts and right at the end of it is 'Don't envy your buddy's cow.' 2009-04-24T13:01:13+10:00 editor@sydneyanglicans.net (Bishop Robert Forsyth) http://sydneyanglicans.net/ministry/critique/you_think_i_am_grumpy