Today at Lambeth Tuesday July 22

Anglican Mainstream
July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Lambeth Conference |

This is clearly Archbishop Rowan Williams conference. Do the math. He
gave an opening welcome. He has led a three day retreat in which he gave
five addresses.

This is a very interesting (and level-headed) discussion by the CBC's
"Sunday Morning" program host, in conversation with Bishop Ann
Tottenham (Ret.) of the Diocese of Toronto. It's available as a CBC
podcast at this link:

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/sundayedition_20080721_6725.mp3

FYI, it's preceded by a conversation with another guest about "The
Phenomenon Of Reading". The segment with Bishop Tottenham begins at
about the half-way point in the program

This is an interesting article that looks at the damage done by Puritanism:

http://afeatheradrift.wordpress.com:80/2008/07/20/our-sexual-schizophrenia/

Tim.
[I agree with the comment afterwards, that the use of the term
'schizophrenia' is unfortunate - but apart from that, it is a very good
article.]

Congratulations! to those readers who have resolutely continued with the
Daily Reading for the last six months. For they have now read half the Old
Testament, and ALL of the New.
May God bless your continued effort and dedication.

Bible Readings for Today
2 Samuel 8-9
Jeremiah 13
Matthew 24

For those who want to go directly to the source of this study guide,
it can be found at http://www.antipas.org/readings/readings.html

It takes normally between 20-30 mins per day depending on one's reading
speed.
It will be found many unanswered questions which may have seemed puzzling
and "Hard to be understood" are slowly and precisely answered as the Bible
is methodically read through day after day.

Here is a helpful link for anyone who either does not have a Bible to
hand, or might prefer reading from their computer, or might want to compare
different translations, or even read non-English versions:
http://www.biblegateway.com/

Holy Cows: Isn't it time the Church found God?

Editorial

The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraphtv/holycows/2105848/Holy-Cows-Isnandrsquot-it...
7/16/2008

This week Holy Cows makes the case that the Church of England should
stop blaming the government for secularizing society and favouring
other religions. Instead, it should look in the mirror - it has been
actively sabotaging itself for some time. Holy Cows argues that the
Church of England should stop blaming the government for secularizing
society and favouring other religions.

If your vicar doesn't believe in the virgin birth, has doubts about
God, wears funky trainers, likes ethnic furniture, and is constantly
having inter-faith meetings with leaders of other religions and giving
them insider tips on how to take over his patch, the chances are you
are being actively secularized, by your own Church!

With a clergy like this, and an all things-to-all-men approach, does
the Church of England actually communicate what it stands for? Does it
know what it stands for?

The Worshiping Community
Kim Riddlebarger When individuals cut themselves loose from
established constraints to enhance the experience of worship, they do
so at their own peril.It is a tragedy that much of the current
discussion of worship takes place apart from the doctrine of the
church, which has always been the context for this very important
subject. The separation of worship from ecclesiology betrays the
individualism of American culture which has been "baptized" and
uncritically carried over into the church. When viewed through the
filter of biblical and classical Protestant thought, much of the "lone-
rangerism" of American Evangelicalism can be readily corrected. If
anything characterizes the American church it is not a lack of zeal in
worship, but a zeal that is loosed from biblical...

OREMUS for Wednesday, July 23, 2008

O Lord, open our lips.
And our mouth shall proclaim your praise.
Blessed are you, O God,
the source and end of all things:
in the resurrection of Christ
you reveal the first fruits of the Spirit,
the pledge of things to come.
For these and all your mercies, we praise you:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:
Blessed be God for ever!

An opening canticle may be sung.

Psalm 19
The heavens declare the glory of God,*
and the firmament shows his handiwork.
One day tells its tale to another,*
and one night imparts knowledge to another.
Although they have no words or language...

Instant Gratification Nation: Can Americans Still Sacrifice for the
Future?

The remarkable thing about the study is that a student's ability at
age four to defer gratification is correlated with better outcomes
much later in life, such as academic and social competence. For
example, one follow-up paper found a statistically significant
relationship between how long a student waited to ring the bell and --
more than a decade later -- their "ability to cope with frustration
and stress in adolescence."

New York Times columnist David Brooks has cited this study and
inferred that most social problems are rooted in an inability to defer
gratification. He argues that for people with poor self-control "life
is a parade of foolish decisions: teen pregnancy, drugs, gambling,
truancy and crime." I agree. I can find no other compelling
explanation for why someone would do something as utterly ridiculous
as dropping out of high school, no matter how bad the school is.

Sarah Hey
Continued Posts on the Non-Protection Actions of General Synod: Women
win bloody battle at the Synod
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 • 7:00 am

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Make no mistake, the Anglo-Catholics were done over at the General
Synod in York in the debate over women bishops. This being the Church
of England, their humiliation was accompanied by lots of hand-
wringing, a good deal of guilt and a late attempt to stop the beating
entirely, when the Bishop of Durham intervened like a worried boxing
referee.

But it was bloody just the same. After nearly eight hours, all that
the Catholic Conscience had to show for its pains was a motion that
now indicates that it is the wish of a "majority" of the Synod for
women to be bishops and the word "statutory" now stands in front of
the proposed code of practice.

"- .. -- Tim .-." hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message

One thing you overlook, Tim, Jesus explaind that the "Field is the world"
NOT the Ecclessia/Church

"Fornicators" whether hetro or homo are to be put away out of the church as
Paul commanded.
Thus you Anglicans are denying the Scriptures and are polluting the churches
with wickedness and gross immorality.

"11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is
called a brother be a FORNICATOR, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer,
or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For
what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them
that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put
away from among yourselves that wicked person." 1 Cor 5:11-13 (KJV)