Number 25, June 2007Get this entire issue in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format Articles'No' to the proposed covenant because of the Baptismal Covenant... We can consider the concerns of our partners in the Communion, but we alone must decide whether thus to bind ourselves. Do we want to move toward formalized structures of accountability? Do they move us closer to the Gospel? Living in community: a difficult issue?... what has been revealed is our inability to think seriously about living in a larger community and trusting the spirit to speak through that same community. Note how we have struggled over "the proper constraints of the bonds of affection." Having A Corner On GodIt is amazing how Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish and Buddhist mystics speak almost identical words when they attempt to describe the transcendent reality that they have encountered and that has taken hold of them so that they stammer in much the same way as they try to describe this ineffable reality. The Anglican Covenant Process and the theological ethics of committed same-sex partnerships: Raising concerns and questionsThe Covenant process is ducking the [two] fundamental questions: How does God intend us to express his gift of our sexuality in the discipline of love? How does God intend us to approach, understand, and interpret the Scriptures in order to discern his heart and mind? Reviews |