Keywords: Sydney Anglican Diocese
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 30 September 2010
1 Comment
The Australian Anglican Church is divided on questions of women's ordination, sexuality, lay presidency and liturgical texts. But the recent assembly in Melbourne was relatively polite, although the question of the conservative, evangelical Sydney Diocese's relationship with the rest was never far from the surface.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 16 April 2010
22 Comments
The Sydney Anglican diocese is concerned that proposed ethics classes in schools might attract students away from
existing scripture classes. This looks more like a matter of turf wars, of seeking to maintain numbers and so
justify their continuance.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
1 Comment
The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 18 November 2009
7 Comments
The movement of existing theological schools into the university structure restores the ancient place of theology as a discipline within a university. But universities could be more interested in money than theology, with theological colleges bringing healthy student numbers and value for money research outputs.
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RELIGION
- Irfan Yusuf
- 14 September 2009
24 Comments
Tony
Abbott has described the New Testament as
'the core document of our civilisation'. As a South Asian Muslim, I'd like to think many Christians would be as incensed by
attempts to treat Christianity as uniquely Western as I am when Islam is treated as uniquely Arab.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 July 2009
22 Comments
Ignoring divisions is rarely the best way to address them. It may be better to name 2009 the year of priests, not the Year of the Priest, thus recognising the divergent approaches to priesthood within the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 24 June 2009
5 Comments
Neither lapsed nor nominal, but wandering — squizzing through
church doors to check the whereabouts of altar, cross and candlesticks,
before slipping into the back row. Last up to Communion, first out the door. A True Anglican.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 April 2009
4 Comments
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book is an invitation to put fear behind us. Given the treatment it has received by people who should have known better, it has become an icon; a call to conversation without fear.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 16 April 2008
7 Comments
In May, the Rev. Canon Kay Goldsworthy will become Australia's first female bishop. The role will entail pressures from those opposed to having a woman as bishop,
and those who have been waiting for this moment for decades.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 03 October 2007
2 Comments
The last pane of the 'stained glass ceiling' was removed last week for most Australian Anglicans. It turns out that a decision made for ecumenical and post-colonial reasons has enabled the change.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 10 July 2006
'The Anglican Church' is dividing, according to recent media statements. Some Anglicans seem to be taking such extreme stances, at the risk of turning communion as divine gift into communion as reward for holding certain stances on lifestyle. What difference does all this make to the life of an Australian Anglican diocese or parish?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Alan Nichols reviews Muriel Porter’sThe New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church.
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