The Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, soon to be invested as IX Bishop of New Hampshire, has announced that he has withdrawn from the March 11th debate at the Oxford Union, in Oxford England.
01 March 2004
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and compound in Ramallah, West Bank, came under Israeli attack on Ash Wednesday
01 March 2004
The official Olympic Organising Committee in Greece (ATHOC) has asked the Church of England's Greater Athens Chaplaincy, along with the small Greek Evangelical Church, to be responsible for recruiting, selecting, accrediting, accommodating and supervising a team of 40 Anglican and Protestant chaplains for this year's Olympic games.
01 March 2004
The Most Revd Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of South Africa and visiting professor in Post-Conflict Studies at King's College London, preached at the college on Sunday 22 February and shared a spiritual message that had guided him through troubled times.
01 March 2004
The Archbishop of Canterbury celebrated his first anniversary today and spoke of the pressures of his job and the pain of the furore over the nomination of a gay bishop.
27 February 2004
The independent weekly, the Church Times, has published a Lent series by Jane Williams for 2004. The new series of study and reflection guides are designed for individual and group use during Lent. The series, called “God Problems”, deals with "obstacles Christians face in deepening their faith and commitment".
20 February 2004
With an overwhelming majority the Church of England’s General Synod yesterday voted to endorse a discussion document issued by the House of Bishops as a guide to the debate started by its 1991 report ‘Some Issues in Human Sexuality.’
12 February 2004
Long, long ago, very clever people decided that the human body, flesh, all material things, that all of these were in and of themselves, evil, intrinsically, inherently and always. So there was no way that the good, the pure, the sublime and, by definition, the perfectly good spirit could be united with the material. For these people, the dualists, the incarnation, God, pure spirit, becoming a human being was totally and in principle, and always, out of the question. What people thought was God become flesh in Jesus Christ, well, that was all just playacting, a charade.
06 February 2004
The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG), one of the Church of England’s major world mission agencies, has appointed the Rt Revd Michael Doe, Bishop of Swindon, to be its next General Secretary.
04 February 2004
Saturday 31 January was an historic day for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and more than 3000 young people.
04 February 2004