I haven’t met Todd Hunter yet. But I’ve heard great things about his days as a church planter with the Vineyard movement. Todd has a new venture, planting Anglican churches in the US.
Tag Archives: Anglican
The future of the Anglican church is black
14 April, 2008 – 11:09 AM
What does the future of the Anglican church look like? According to this report it’s black. Very black. While the English Anglicans have been closing churches at a frightening rate, the Nigerians have been planting them. At a recent meeting let by Archbishop Peter Akinola, they created 18 new dioceses and elected 20 new bishops [...]
What should the Anglicans do?
28 February, 2008 – 5:42 AM
It is no exaggeration to say that the global Anglican church of is at a crossroads facing its greatest crisis since the Reformation. It’s been there at least since the 1998 Lambeth Conference when the vast majority of Anglican bishops worldwide rejected “homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture.” Despite this the Episcopal church in the [...]
Rowan Williams and the trouble with the Anglican church
27 February, 2008 – 4:11 AM
Recently the 104th Anglican archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, provoked outrage suggesting that the adoption of elements of Islamic sharia law in Britain was “unavoidable” if social cohesion was to be fostered in Britain. He called the principle of one law for everybody “a bit of a danger”. Unfortunately for the Anglican church, this was [...]
Why have the Presbyterians stopped breeding?
13 February, 2008 – 7:35 AM
Now days it’s hard to find a breeding pair of Presbyterians. That memorable quote comes from Professor Gary Bouma of Monash University. He was commenting on the 2006 Australian census figures on religious adherence. You can say the same thing about the breeding patterns of the Uniting Church and much of the Anglican church outside [...]
10 Questions for Steve Jones
19 March, 2007 – 6:26 PM
I met Steve Jones at the St Marys refresh conference and soon discovered he was a good candidate for 10 Questions. He’s planting a church out of one of the St Mary’s church plants. That makes St Mary’s a grandparent and Holy Trinity Brompton a great grandparent. 1. Tell me about your church plant? I’m [...]
Spong’s legacy
23 January, 2006 – 5:58 PM
It seems my Shifting the Deckchairs in Newark has stirred up quite a bit of interest over at Signposts. A few thoughts. . . First of all you may want to read my original post on Spong The Suicide of Liberal Christianity. It’s important to remember that Spong is not an isolated phenomena but part [...]
Shifting the deck chairs in Newark
21 January, 2006 – 5:28 PM
A new report reveals the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, continues to be in serious decline. It’s membership is free-falling at a rate three times the national average for the embattled Episcopal church. Down by 46% since 1972. Nearly 90 percent of its parishes were founded before 1942, and not a single church has opened in [...]
Growing leaders II
16 January, 2006 – 5:49 AM
Intentional leadership development is at the heart of any sustained church planting movement.This is the second post on the Ministry Training Strategy (MTS). The previous post looks at 7 Lessons on Growing Leaders. This one fills out some the detail and came out of phone conversation with Colin Marshall who heads up MTS. MTS offers [...]
The suicide of liberal Christianity
11 April, 2005 – 6:49 PM
Episcopalian Bishop John Shelby Spong stands in the tradition of modern clerics who have called for a new reformation in the church. A reformation, according to Spong, that will make the Protestant Reformation look like a Mother’s Union tea party. Spong argues that in the modern world, the idea of a personal God is outmoded. [...]
