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Eleven Nations Under One Roof; Fellows Release Statement Covenanting to Transform Society
The most controversial thing about the inauguration of an “Aspen Institute” type gathering of Anglican leaders in Charleston was the cold. Many of the 14 participants came from countries close to the Equator, and despite space heaters, a roaring fireplace, and a heated building they huddled in loaned parkas and woolen sweaters as if they were at the North Pole. Harper Kicks off 10-Day Grandparenting Tour in SC with Beaufort Event
 Conference to focus on how grandparents can help influence the spiritual formation of the next generationCHARLESTON, SC February 25, 2016 – Cavin Harper, founder and director of the Colorado Springs, CO, based Christian Grandparenting Network, will kick off a 10-day tour in South Carolina leading events on Biblical Grandparenting with a mini-conference on Biblical Grandparenting: Does Our Legacy Matter? Friday, March 11 at the Cross Schools Campus in Bluffton. Cost is $10 per person and begins at 9 a.m. The grandparenting conference is one of the events hosted by the Diocese of South Carolina as part of its 225th Annual Diocesan Convention. The Diocese is also offering a series of free workshops, all open to the public. Registration for the conference, the free workshops and the grandparenting workshop can be done here. The Fire, Lord, Not the Junk Heap; An Ash Wednesday Reflection from Bishop Mark Lawrence
 The famous radio personality and early pioneer of television, Arthur Godfrey, grew up in an era very different from today. It was a time when a boy could wander down to the blacksmith shop on a lazy afternoon and watch the smithy work at his anvil and forge. It was a favorite pastime of the young Godfrey. Sometimes he would watch the blacksmith sorting the scrap metal. The man would pick up a piece of metal from a holding bin, turn it this way and that in his large hands, then either toss it into the fire to be softened and hammered into some useful tool, or thrown into a junk heap to be discarded. From this experience Arthur forged a simple prayer which he used all his life. Whenever seized by his own sense of sin or some personal moral failure he would pray—“The fire, Lord, not the junk-heap.” It is a prayer that captures two essential dimensions of Ash Wednesday and Lent— a prayer for pardon and a prayer for purity. Let’s take pardon first. “Two men” said Jesus “went up to the Temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.” So begins a parable appointed to be read in the daily office for Ash Wednesday—Luke 18:9-14. At first blush it seems quite simple. Most of us have heard it before; but if you read it again and again with the purpose of explaining it to others you may find, as I often have, it is a most disconcerting parable. This is not two men just happening to drop by the synagogue or church around the same time to pray about a problem in their lives. This is going up to the Temple for the evening sacrifice—the place of atonement. The Cross and the Crescent; 2016 Mere Anglicanism Conference Examines the Gospel and the Challenge of Islam
By Sue Careless, Anglican Planet The Anglican Leadership Institute: The Chance of a Lifetime
David Booman Reflects on His Participation in The Anglican Leadership Institute By the Rev. David Booman, Asst. Rector, St. Michael’s Church, CharlestonIn the recent holiday season I was reminded of a scene from my favorite Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. George Bailey is paying a special visit to his friend Mary, with something like courtship in mind. However, things do not get off to a good start, and then, as their conversation deteriorates, one of George’s friends telephones out of the blue and offers George ‘The Chance of a Lifetime.’ What is this amazing opportunity? Getting in on the ground floor of a business venture involving plastics. Fortunately, George drops the telephone and what follows is one of the great loves scenes in the history of cinema. ‘Chances of a Lifetime’ by definition do not happen every day (and often they are grossly exaggerated as in the story above). But this does not mean they never happen. Indeed, this Fall I was presented with an opportunity that has led me to think in these superlative terms. I was invited to be part of the inaugural Anglican Leadership Institute, an invitation extended by the Rev. Dr. Peter Moore, the Director of this initiative. |
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This year’s Mere Anglicanism conference offered multiple sessions on engaging Muslims with the Christian gospel. Meeting under the theme “The Cross and the Crescent: the Gospel and the Challenge of Islam,” the conference attracted nearly 870 participants to Charleston, South Carolina on January 28-30.
