Pluralist Speaks (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Kate Aurigemma of the Political Research Associates (PRA) has emailed me about its latest culture wars report Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, and Homophobia . The report exposes the U.S. political right's promotion of an agenda in Africa that aims to criminalise homosexuality and of course this is very timely. I tell my Unitarian friends that, whatever arguments...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As the details of the Pope's offer to disaffected Anglicans sink in, hostility grows to the proposals Ten days after the publication of the details of the Pope's offer to disaffected Anglicans , and it's clear that one effect of his attempt at unity has been increase unhappiness and disunity almost everywhere. Within the Church of England, sentiment has hardened against the Anglo-Catholics. That was...
Pluralist Speaks (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Wow. That was one of the liveliest of In Depth Group meetings for some time. David Jenkins as a bishop had no detractors there at all, and I think I made the case that stuck - that is, that this man believed in God acting , that history is reality and God is reality, and that we think now about autonomous forces (practical, this-worldly explanations) but for Jenkins this presents a problem that God...
Sevenoaks, St John the Baptist (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Where does one start? The beauty of the Mass and enthusiasm of the people have covered albeit momentarily the bitter news that came out yesterday as a press release from the CofE’s committee on the admittance of women to the episcopate.(See previous blog entries) After Mass, several people spoke to me about their serious concern and I felt awful to be in a place in which I had not much to say...
Clayboy (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Today’s Church Times column by the pugnaciously liberal Giles Fraser made me want to look up the new bishop-designate of Peterborough for myself. Okay, his series on the 39 articles is twelve years old, and he could have changed his mind in a number of ways, but this is what he was teaching in 1997. [...]
Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
We previously reported the appointment of a new Bishop of Peterborough. This got noticed in the Diary column of the Guardian. The Church Times has a news report today, but that is subscriber-only for another week. However, the appointment is...
The Ugley Vicar (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yesterday’s news that the Venerable Donald Allister had been appointed the next Bishop of Peterborough initially came as a pleasant surprise in the midst of all the doom and gloom. Donald is well-known in Conservative Evangelical circles — indeed he used to be chairman of the Council of Church Society. I therefore found myself somewhat baffled by what Donald is quoted as saying in a press-release...
The Ugley Vicar (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The more I look at this , the more confused I am about the new Bishop of Peterborough. In the Diocesan press release it is stated that, Contrary to some inaccurate decade-old news reports still in circulation,[Donald Allister] ... never refused communion to unconfirmed children if the parish church has followed the proper guidelines for their preparation [...]. He remains concerned, however, that...
LankyAnglican (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I saw the news today that the new Bishop of Peterborough has been announced. The wording of the press release made me think, though. I know the C of E is the established Church, but it does seem odd that the Prime Minister's Office make the formal announcment. No offence to Peterborough (it's a very nice place), but I would have thought the PM's office have more pressing issues to deal with.
Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Here is the announcement from Downing Street: The Queen has approved the nomination of the Venerable Donald Spargo Allister MA, Archdeacon of Chester, for election as Bishop of Peterborough in succession to the late Right Reverend Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy,...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The new Bishop of Peterborough, who is replacing the late Rt Revd Ian Cundy, is named.
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Prime Minister’s Office has announced today that the next Bishop of Peterborough is to be the Ven. Donald Allister, currently Archdeacon of Chester. He succeeds the Rt Revd Ian Cundy, who died in May. The Church of England’s Peterborough Diocese unites churches in Northants, Rutland and most of Peterborough city. The dates of Donald Allister’s consecration [...]
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
LIVERPOOL-BORN archdeacon the Venerable Donald Allister is to be installed as the new Bishop of Peterborough.
Post-Darwinist (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
This story from Canada's "human rights" industry would be unbelievable if it did not happen to be true. Peterborough Bishop Responds to Human Rights Complaint by Dismissed Homosexual Altar Server Bishop says, "The Tribunal has no authority to place itself as an arbiter of canonical precepts." By Patrick B. Craine PETERBOROUGH, Ontario, September 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The...
eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
(CNA).- Responding to the claims of an adult altar server who reported the Diocese of Peterborough to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal for removing him from service, Bishop of Peterborough Nicola De Angelis has denied the authority of the tribunal to interfere in Church governance and has appealed for Catholic unity. Jim Corcoran, who was an [...]
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