St John the Evangelist

The Vicar writes

August 2008

Dear People of St John’s

A little bit of history helps …

Of course we don’t believe all that we read in the newspapers.  Neither do we believe all we see on TV.  Remember the clips of the Queen (allegedly!) storming out of a photo session?  ‘Not true!’ we were told a few days later.  The film clips we saw were actually the Queen leaving after the photo session was over!

Over the past few weeks we’ve been fed a diet of headline-grabbing news announcing the ‘break-up’, or the ‘collapse’, or even the ‘end’ of our Anglican Church.  Journalists love writing obituaries – of the Church, of the monarchy, of political leaders, and anyone else whom they think is fair game. Read

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. Dear People of St John’s

W(h)ither the worldwide Anglican Communion…?

Does the worldwide Anglican family of churches have a future, or is it in a state of ‘meltdown’ and likely to wither on the vine?  Given the wild speculation in the media over the last year or so, ordinary Church-going Anglicans may be rather bewildered about what journalists (most of whom never darken a church door) seem to be predicting about our Church.

Speculation is particularly rife at the moment because next month bishops from all the 44 member Churches of our Anglican family across the world have been invited to Canterbury for the Lambeth Conference – a gathering of Anglican bishops held at Canterbury every 10 years

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