She held her grief behind her eyes like
an ocean & when she leaned forward
into the day it spilled onto the floor &
she wiped at it quickly with her foot &
pretended no one had seen.
The birds brought seed & flowers & bitsFrom StoryPeople.
of brightly colored string & placed them
in her hair while she slept so that she
would remember the wild joy of spring
when she finally awoke.
I've enjoyed immensely Juan's series translations of Omar Khayyam.Seekers of the truth look at the
lovely and the ugly
as the same.
Lovers are at home
in heaven and in hell.
Those who’ve lost their hearts can
dress in satin or sack cloth;
the infatuated
do not know if they are laying
down their heads in clouds or
resting them on earthen bricks.
Translated by Juan Cole
from [pdf] Whinfield 128
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| Richard Chartres, Bishop of London |
At an evening gathering of over 500 Anglicans in the Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, on Thursday 26 April, the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (UK and Ireland) hosted scores of senior Anglican leaders from 30 countries who arrived from conference at St Mark’s, Battersea Rise, in a fleet of red double decker buses. They were welcomed by the Bishop of London who encouraged them in evangelism. They also heard of Christian witness amid the terrorism in Nigeria and countries of Central Asia.I'd say to Bishop Chartres, "Careful, this welcome and encouragement to the FoCA folks to evangelize may come back to bite you." But what do I know?
“The Primates of the FCA have assured us that, through instruments now available in this country, including the panel of bishops of the Anglican Mission in England and the FCA UK, those who might otherwise have been under pressure to leave the Church of England can remain within the family of global Anglicanism and be recognized by that body as faithful to the Church of England itself.”There you have it.
"I am delighted to announce that the Rev Justin Duckworth has been chosen as the next Bishop of Wellington.
Justin was nominated by an Electoral
College ably chaired by Bishop Richard Ellena, and Justin's nomination
has since been formally confirmed by the House of Bishops and members of
the General Synod.
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Justin, who is 44, has been at the cutting edge of mission and ministry in Wellington for 25 years." | |
The Revd Malcolm French (Canada) | |
The Revd Jean Mayland (England) | |
The Ven Lawrence Kimberley (New Zealand) | |
The Revd Canon Hugh Magee (Scotland) | |
Dr Lionel Deimel (USA) |
...the Directors have issued the below Frequently Asked Questions, ahead of the official Trust launch and reception. The Directors hope that the FAQ's may be of interest to members of churches of other Dioceses where there is also widespread concern about revisionism.The first question is of particular interest:
1. Does the Trust mean one particular tradition of the church will just be serving themselves?
No. The Trust is open to applications from any Incumbent within the Diocese who can genuinely sign The Jerusalem Declaration (see below).I will not cover the FAQs one by one, but regarding the first question, is The Jerusalem Declaration another creed? Signing the declaration seems to be the ticket to get in the door of the Trust. According to The Jerusalem Declaration:
3. We uphold the four Ecumenical Councils and the three historic Creeds as expressing the rule of faith of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.But that's not quite enough to assure the exclusion of Anglicans who accept the historic Creeds, but may yet be categorized as revisionists.
5. Is the Trust ‘separatist’ ?
The Trust seeks to support parish churches of the Diocese which are orthodox, whatever their particular tradition. There is nothing separatist about it.Is the intention to take over the Church of England from within? Is this the beginning of an attempt to turn the Church of England into an evangelical fundamentalist church? But wait! Will the alliance between the two groups, fundamentalist evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics, hang together?
Rather its intention as its name implies, is that members should be 'Good Stewards’ of the monies the Lord has given them, and be ‘Good Stewards’ of the apostolic Gospel which has been entrusted to them, within a particular Diocese, for the sake of the salvation of future generations.So. It's about the monies and the Gospel with the monies mentioned first. How will the monies of the Diocese of Southwark be affected as churches ally with the Trust?
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