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Readers make a significant contribution to the Church's ministry and mission. Bridging the Gap is full of information and practical help for those seeking to discover their vocation in Christian ministry, as well as for clergy, Readers and interested lay people.
This survey of unprecedented scope is designed to help the reader map their way through the thinking that has shaped present-day Anglican ministry. It contains a history of strategic developments and key reports and decisions, identifying the vital issues faced by the Church of England and offering informed suggestions for reform.
A personal record by Bishop Colin Buchanan of his involvement in three and half decades of General Synod.
The present system for choosing diocesan bishops was agreed in 1976. Twenty-five years later, this report reviews its operation in the light of evidence from a wide range of people and groups with varied experience of the process, and also of developments in secular practice. It recommends changes in order to ensure that the process is open and transparent, and is seen to be "fair, thorough, representative and effective". The report: also reviews the operation of the Crown Appointments Commission; considers the "pool" from which those nominated to diocesan sees are drawn and the means by which the views of the vacant diocese are made known to the commission; and highlights the distinction between the Crown's nomination of one of the candidates chosen by the Commission and the church processes. An essay entitled "Towards a theology fo choosing bishops" and an historic survey of the choosing of bishops in the early church and in the Church of England informs the thinking of the report and offers important background material.
The Learning Church series offers a range of short and accessible introductions on some of the key themes in Christian theology and discipleship. This book discusses the basic Christian belief that God has a purpose and plan for the World and that God calls us to work with God to bring that purpose and plan to fruition. In contemporary Christian thinking Gods call is to discipleship and ministry. This book is designed to help readers grasp the theology of call and of vocation and to discern Gods call to them.
This is the first comprehensive book on Anglican and Pentecostal ecumenical relations. It introduces both movements with a particular focus on their approaches to ecumenism, before exploring sacraments, ministry, ecclesiology, pneumatology, and mission with respect to both traditions. As well as providing more theological and historical discussion, the book also offers personal accounts of local, national, and international ecumenical engagement by both Anglicans and Pentecostals. It is written predominantly—although not exclusively—from a British perspective. Even so, as the first major published dialogue between these two global Christian traditions, the book will be of value to all interested in Anglicanism, Pentecostalism, and ecumenism.
There are approximately 10,000 Readers in the Church of England, many serving in parishes, taking services and preaching as well as doing pastoral work, while others engage in a variety of other roles. In recent years many dioceses have put a strong emphasis on accredited lay ministry alongside the ministry of clergy. 2016 is the 150th anniversary of Reader Ministry in the Church of England, and there will be celebrations around this. This book, written by two experienced teachers working with Readers and supporting Reader ministry, offers a fresh look at Reader ministry and thus a resource for Readers to consider their own specific ministry as well as for those exploring Reader ministry as a possible vocation.
The last volume in a series about a boy's club at the Grand Pré Academy in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, called the Brethren of the Order of the White Cross, who embark on perilous adventures.