As I prepare for a trip to England this week, I look forward to some first-hand observation of our Mother Church. According to a recent article in the Church Times, a soon-to-be-published history of Christianity by the brilliant English historian Diarmaid MacCulloch apparently will argue that change is inevitable in Christianity, that no orthodoxy remains so for long, and that developments tend inexorably in the progressive direction. I look forward to reading the book; it may take the full 1,200 pages to convince me that new ideas are always right.
Meanwhile, the President of the House of Deputies of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church (TEC), Bonnie Anderson continues to expand her job-description, as she plans to convene a committee to evaluate the "governance" of the church.
How that will jibe with the Presiding Bishop's actual governance is not clear to me. And having spent many miserable hours serving on various governance committees for non-profit boards, I find it difficult to be optimistic that Mrs. Anderson's project will bear fruit. --J. Douglas Ousley
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Regarding the new MacCulloch history, His Grace of Canterbury noted in a review in The Guardian * that the subtitle The First Three Thousand Years is "provocative."
I wonder whether we may anticipate that the concurrent BBC television series (now being seen in the U.K.) will be available on DVD or broadcast here in the States.
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* http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/19/history-christianity-diarmaid-mccullouch
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