Subordination? Heresy!
The Conservative Evangelical argument for male-headship in the home and the church has been consistently presented with a clear Biblical case, sometimes called ‘complementarianism’. Yet it’s a belief that this last week at General Synod has been dismissed and is seemingly defeated by two killer blows… a) That God is Trinity, three persons who are ...
Synod Says No
So today the Church of England General Synod voted no to the measure put before it on Women Bishops. At the outset I have three points of clarification: 1) By a simple majority it was a clear YES, but the vote didn’t receive a 2/3 majority in the House of Laity 2) Although I supported ...
Bad Arguments and Women Bishops
Today marks the start of the latest meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod. Church meetings should be a time for prayer, praise, fellowship, sitting under God’s word and casting a vision for the future and committing and planning to reach the nation with the good news of Jesus. Alas, as per usual the ...
Masculine Christianity
There have been plenty of contributions from various Pastors, bloggers, ‘tweeps’ and Synods in recent weeks on the subject of Masculinity. Whether it’s Mark Driscoll calling us ‘cowards’ and promoting Jesus as a model of ‘valour, courage and masculinity’, or John Piper telling us that Christianity should be led by ‘masculine ministry’, or even the ...
++ Hugh
It’s ok, no need to bow, curtsey, kiss my ring, look up at my mitre, be touched by my crook or any of that kind of nonsense… But you could show a little bit of Malawian style respect… I think there was some confusion; visitors from the UK from ‘Bishop Hannington Church’… at some point turned into ...