The Americans Know This Will End In Schism
N.T Wright is very wrong on the issue of Justification and the Atonement, but he gets this right. The Episcopal Church in America has voted overwhelmingly to ignore the 2004 Windsor Report placing a moratorium on the blessing of same-sex couples and the ordaining of practising homosexuals as Bishops and Ministers. N.T Wright writes:
Jesus’s own stern denunciation of sexual immorality would certainly have carried, to his hearers, a clear implied rejection of all sexual behaviour outside heterosexual monogamy. This isn’t a matter of “private response to Scripture” but of the uniform teaching of the whole Bible, of Jesus himself, and of the entire Christian tradition.
The Orthodox Are Finished
Albert Mohler also reflects upon the decision by the Episcopal Church in his characteristically insightful way. His next blog on the issue, ‘The Bishop Discovers Heresy?‘, takes to task Dr. Katherine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, over her use of the term ‘heresy’ in describing the most fundamental of all Christian doctrines – individual conversion to faith in Christ.
Blessed are the Green of Heart
Alan Jacobs at ‘First Things’ has given a brilliant review of the latest offering in the world of Bible’s – ‘The Green Letter Bible‘.
John Calvin on Facebook?
Douglas Estes over at Koinonia gives some itneresting reasons why he thinks John Calvin (great reformation theologian) would have signed up to facebook…
Why We Don’t Sing
Tony Payne over at the Sola Panel offers some insights as to why we find it hard to sing in church. His conclusion is insightful and one for all of us to ponder:
The very fact that we Christians do still sing makes us strikingly different in our world. That we don’t sing more lustily means that the godless sorrow of our world is still too much with us.
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