Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Knowing and Not Wanting to Know the Truth
David Goodhew The Living Church TEC’s Latest Numbers: The Good News and the Bad News
Christine Polhill Women and the Church ‘Stop making bishops for specific groups’
Gavin Drake Church Abuse All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God – except bishops, obviously
From David Goodhew:
“But a significant number of American churches and denominations is growing. Some are within TEC, and the denomination urgently needs to ask why they are so doing.”
I challenge this. I’m an American, and I have seen no such growth outside the Roman Catholic church, whose growth is largely attributed to immigration from Latin America. (And even that growth seems not to be sustainable into the second and third generations.)
It is time, I think, for Christians of all denominations to simply accept that Western society is increasingly secular.
I thought the point–in this otherwise sobering essay “TEC will baptize fewer than 10,000 children annually by 2030. That would be less than a quarter of the number it was baptizing as recently as 2000″–was that where there is growth, including inside TEC, one should ask why. Surely that makes a lot of sense. Go to places like St George’s Nashville, or St John the Divine Houston, or Incarnation Dallas, and see how they are building strong, intergenerational congregations, where baptisms are not declining and where the congregations are not just the aging population.
And frankly, the sooner we accept that, the sooner we can reach people where they are with the news that God loves them
Re Gavin’s blog: I thought Rico Tice had left the Church of England early this year to (in his words) ‘demonstrate some clear separation [from it]’ over PLF/LLF.
https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/well-known-evangelist-leaves-church-of-england-over-same-sex-views
But despite demonstrating ‘some clear separation’ in April 2024 he still has in late 2024 a PtO to suspend? Any chance of some clarification?