Thanks to Graham Wintle for this one: friend, my vicar 10 years ago, now at St Stephen’s Willoughby in Sydney
A stone can affect a river in one of two ways. It can cause the waters to ripple – in slight, but intriguing ways. Or it can be a large boulder that diverts the entire course of the river.
You have to love Microsoft Word’s “smart tags” feature.
... or has it merely attempted to eclipse everything else.
Once upon a time, long long ago, the Church of England spoke of a number of “churchmanships” among its ranks. The differences are appropriately called differences of churchmanship because that is what they are – a difference in our doctrine of the church. Classically there were 3: Evangelical, Anglo-Catholic and Liberal. (Footnote: The charismatic renewal of the 1970s gave rise to the question of whether “Charismatic” is a fourth churchmanship; history would suggest that the charismatic renewal movement has permeated all 3 wings of the church, so is more subtle than that – but that is a different issue).
Since then, two things have changed. … Read more about Has liberalism vanished?
