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Our secret heresy revealed

It may be that the "prosperity gospel" is waning among our Pentecostal brothers and sisters but what about the unofficial Sydney Anglican prosperity doctrine...

#70 - The Queen and the humanity of marriage

The Queen's celebration of sixty years of marriage is bound to become increasingly unusual as people marry later and as more marriages dissolve in separation and divorce, despite increasing life-spans.

In search of ... elevator speeches

In elevators, at parties, on the sidelines of soccer ovals strangers often ask you what you 'do'. How can you turn this 30 second opening into a window on eternity?

Greed as Idolatry

Brian Rosner elevates the issue of increasing consumerism and isolationism to the level of importance the Bible gives it: being greedy is the worst kind of opposition to God. It is idolatry.

Sydney firm on women bishops

A decision by a NSW diocese to elect a female bishop would clearly 'break the unity of the Anglican Church, says the Bishop of North Sydney, Glenn Davies. Archbishop Peter Jensen has confirmed that he cannot participate in the consecration of a woman bishop. Yet Anglican protocol holds that as Metropolitan of NSW, the Archbishop of Sydney consecrates all NSW bishops. Your.sydneyanglicans.net investigates this potentially divisive issue.

What I know about women bishops

The legal process that led to the approval of women bishops was extraordinarily complicated and difficult to report in a short news article. Bishop Glenn Davies explains.

The Amber Spyglass

It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the first two volumes of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials series, that the final part is stridently anti-Christian.

Will the Communion crumble?

The 2008 Lambeth Conference is fast approaching. But will Lambeth be held at all in 2008? To this question I would venture to reply Yes, though possibly with a largish number of bishops not present.

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