Bishop of Durham

Ur Video: NT Wright on Blogging

Out of Ur (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009

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About the Rt. Rev. David Jenkins

Pluralist Speaks (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

The next St Mary's Barton-upon Humber In Depth Group course paper is ready for presentation by me. It is all about the theological controversy surrounding the former Bishop of Durham , now Assistant Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, David Jenkins. Unlike some theistic liberal Christian theologians, David Jenkins clearly believed in God acting in history, and in people living in reality - reality of life lived...

Evangelicals and Catholics working together —where now, after October 20th?

The Ugley Vicar (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

(Yesterday was a nightmare, not least because I drove to Manchester and back to deliver this talk to the local branch of Forward in Faith. Thanks to delays, it took me 5 hours to get there. However, I gather it was well received, so here it is.) Introduction Until very recently, I took the view that in the present difficulties facing the Church of England, evangelicals and catholics could and should...

Bring The Pope To Durham

David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

From the website of God's Own University: A Durham consortium of University and faith leaders hopes that Pope Benedict XVI will accept their invitation to make the first ever papal visit to the North East of England. Following a visit of Vatican representative and HM Ambassador to the Holy See, HE Francis Campbell, to Durham University in March of this year, a unique partnership of University, Anglican...

Time to spring the door on Forward in Faith’s closet

The Changing Attitude Blog (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009

Robert Pigott, the BBC’s religious affairs correspondent listened to the argument at Saturday’s Forward in Faith event in London. He recorded the Rev Dr Geoffrey Kirk, Secretary of FiF, who said: “The Church of England is in the view of many of us ceasing to be the church of Jesus Christ and becoming the church of political correctness - not only over the ordination of women to the...

Durham divers find bishop's gold

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009

• Amateur divers discover hoard of gold and silver • Cathedral baffled by items owned by former leader After almost 30 years, the riverbed below Durham Cathedral has given up a bewildering secret: a hoard of ecclesiastical gold and silver, including medals, goblets, and crucifixes belonging to the Queen, the pope and other state and church leaders. A total of 32 objects given as gifts to...

Whose Bridge?

Dusty Bins (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009

An initial glance through the very full Autumn 2009 Lek from Durham Bird Club today and I was enjoying Mark Newsome's article detailing the 'History of Breeding Kittiwakes in Durham' which provides a good insight into how the species has spread in recent times as well as the peaks and troughs of breeding numbers. My attention was caught however by the inclusion of a section on the 'Tyne Bridge Gateshead...

Rejecting the Covenant

The Changing Attitude Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009

Bishop Peter Selby’s paper to the Inclusive Church Conference has alerted me to take more seriously the warnings of some Changing Attitude supporters about the Anglican Covenant, warnings which they have voiced from the start – that it is bad news and should be opposed. Peter Selby said the Covenant as proposed would be a disaster for the Anglican Communion. It would create a church in...

Bishops in palaces

The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009

Those who thought that the days of English Bishops living in palaces were entirely pre-reformation are sadly mistaken. Jonathan Wynne-Jones has an interesting piece in his Telegraph blog about Rose Castle . This is a 14th century palace which has been home to the previous 66 bishops of Carlisle. With 16 bedrooms, a state reception room and a drawing room with 18th century Chinese wallpaper, it is certainly...

ENGLAND: US Church cannot sign Covenant, say Wright and American critics

VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009

ENGLAND: US Church cannot sign Covenant, say Wright and American critics by a staff reporter The Church Times http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=81236 September 11, 2009 THE Episcopal Church in the United States cannot in conscience sign the Anglican Covenant, a group of con­servatives says. The group includes the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright. The criticism of the Episcopal Church comes...

• THE Episcopal Church in the United States cannot in conscience sign the Anglican Covenant, a group of con­servatives says. The group includes the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright. - eChurchWebsites Blog
• US Church cannot sign Covenant, say Wright and American critics - Anglican Mainstream

The Anglican Covenant: Shared Discernment Recognized By All

Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009

From ACI The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz The Reverend Dr. Philip Turner The Reverend Dr. Ephraim Radner Mark McCall, Esq. The Rt. Reverend Dr. N. T. Wright Bishop of Durham The approved text of the Anglican Covenant is already serving as a lens through which individual Anglican churches are inevitably and accurately being measured in terms of their character as “Communion [...]...

SIR JOHN CONYERS and the SOCKBURN WORM

THE LION AND THE CARDINAL (Free subscription) | 31/08/2009

British Museum MS Harleian 2118 : Sr Jo Conyers of Storkburn Knt who slew ye monstrous venoms and poysons wiverms Ask or worme which overthrew and Devourd many people in fight, for the scent of poyson was soo strong, that no person was able to abide it, yet he by the providence of God overthrew it and lyes buried at Storkburn before the Conquest, but before he did enterprise it (having but one sonne)...

Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future

VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009

Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future The Modern Churchpeople's Union reply to Drs Williams and Wright VOL note: It was from this liberal organization that a British cleric the Rev. Nicholas Henderson sought to become the next Bishop of Lake Malawi, Africa. It is why the African church must resist any and every inroad from the Church of England and from such false shepherds of the sheep as Henderson....

MCU response to Williams and Wright

Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009

The Modern Churchpeople’s Union has published a critique of the responses of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Durham to the decision by the Episcopal Church of the USA (TEC), at its General Convention in July 2009, to...

The Smell of Coffee

Pluralist Speaks (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009

Hooray for the Modern Churchpeople's Union in updating the appearance of its website, and more of a hooray for new content in an article that focuses on the recent attacks on gay people as necessarily unrepresentative in Anglicanism in the pursuit of goals to centralise worldwide Anglicanism. The following is not a summary of the argument made, but just some lifted choice paragraphs and phrases which...