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The Myth of the Via Media, and other Canterbury Tales[1] – Part 1

August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 by Mark Earngey

GAFCON Australasia 2022 The Pressing Challenge of Anglican Identity“Sometimes it is called fudge … And I say, hey, I like fudge, it’s a lot better than killing each other.”[2] So said Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on the topic of Anglican…

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The Myth of the Via Media, and other Canterbury Tales [1]

August 23, 2022August 23, 2022 by Mark Earngey

GAFCON Australasia 2022The Pressing Challenge of Anglican Identity“Sometimes it is called fudge … And I say, hey, I like fudge, it’s a lot better than killing each other.”[2] So said Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, on the topic of Anglican…

ACR Journal

Advance Australia Where?

July 22, 2021July 23, 2021 by Mark Earngey

This article was written for the ACR Journal in the lead-up to the archiepiscopal election of the Diocese of Sydney in 2021. Thus the context is prior to the successful election of Abp Kanishka Raffel and needs to be understood in that chronological…

ACR Journal

The Importance of the Gospel

May 25, 2021May 25, 2021 by Mark Earngey

Where would you be without the gospel? I shudder to think of where my life would have headed without it, and it horrifies me to hypothesise about a future without it. Wonderfully, I am not weighed down by such thoughts. For I love to remember when…

ACR Journal

Marriage has always been…?

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 by Mark Earngey

A Short History of Christian Marriage [1]The following was first published as part of the Diocese of Sydney submission to the recent Appellate Tribunal. The purpose of this paper is to provide a short account of the development of marriage within…

ACR Journal

Lady Jane Grey: A Firm Faith

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 by Mark Earngey

The following is an excerpt from a short biography written by Mark Earngey. Complementary copies are to be delivered to Sydney Anglican rectors as a Christmas gift from the ACR. If others would like to order copies please email editor@australianchurchrecord.netPost…

ACR Journal

Not I, But Christ

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 by Mark Earngey

A remarkable revolution takes place when a person is converted. I will never tire of reflecting upon the conversion of Saul of Tarsus that day on Straight Street in Damascus. After he met the Lord Jesus Christ, the activistic antagonist had atonement…