Interesting quote…

I have spent the last two days being sick. It is always interesting to me how when I’m sick I have to stop, even if I don’t want to. So in the past couple of days, I’ve been given the freedom to read what I want, when I want, and to think about  some of the things I’ve not had the time to think about.

One of the blogs I check on a regular basis is Internet Monk (iMonk). He’s been doing a series on the ‘evangelical liturgy.’ Though I am not specifically in agreement with some of what he says, there are points which shine forth. Today was one of those nuggets.

Read it and think about it….

“In most worship services, we need liturgy to do for us what we are lazy and unwilling to do for ourselves.”    iMonk 23/09/09

Bishop of Rochester – Michael Nazir-Ali

Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali gives a ‘farewell’ interview to the Telegraph. There is a phrase I particularly enjoyed – principled comprehensiveness. What a phrase…. It completely dismantles the critique of conservatives/orthodox/…[insert cliche here] by progressives for not being comprehensive enough.

Read the entire interview here.

Bishop of Durham, N.T. Wright, responds to ++Cantuar’s ‘reflection’.

I have just one question for Bishop Wright regarding the following:

and he warns against speaking ‘in apocalyptic terms of schism and excommunication’. He also speaks of the ‘twofold ecclesial reality’ as a ‘possibility’ in the ‘middle distance’. (ii) The Reality: But, as he himself has indicated, key decisions have been made (obviously not yet in terms of voting on the Covenant, but certainly in terms of taking stances which will lead directly to such votes); schism has already happened; and not just a twofold, but a confusing and pluriform ecclesial reality, is not just a middle-distance possibility but an on-the-ground and in-your-face fact. (emphasis mine)

Which of you is right? The ++ABC warns against speaking in terms of schism and excommunication’, but shortly after, you state that “schism has already happened…” It appears that the ++ABC is simply not willing to recognise the facts on the ground, no matter his assent to the destructive actions of GC. This is what some commentators have noted as ++Cantuar’s Hegelian dialectic. If ++Cantuar is unwilling to recognise the schism, in concept or otherwise, the quick action called for by +Durham will not come. Then where does that leave us? I’m afraid we’ll be, yet again, in the developing Anglican purgatory…

Read the whole thing here.

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