The 2017 conference of Evangelicals in the Episcopal Church will be held at the Diocese of Central Florida’s Canterbury Retreat and Conference Center in Oviedo (just outside of Orlando), Florida, Wednesday April 19th – Saturday April 22nd.
All Evangelicals welcome—clergy and laity, egalitarian and complementarian, high church and low church, Episcopalian and non-Episcopalian.
More details to follow here and here!
October 28, 2016 at 11:13 am
Thanks for including spring 2016’s agenda—looked really good, as does the
2017 agenda. Also thanks for the list of types of evangelicals. Missing from
the list: what’s been called “Open Evos” and “Closed Evos” on the British
blog Fulcrum. I think of “Open Evos” as people like the Rev. Dr. Sam Shoemaker in Pittsburgh, who was praised by Billly Graham, and whose goal was to bring people to Christ, with the help of the Holy Spirit,—which he did through Biblical teaching emphasizing the love of God and the caring Christian community—and lay organizations like Cursillo, DOK, and the AFP. Repentance would come through response to Christ’s love. In contrast, “Closed Evos” emphasize repentance as coming through fear of the wrath of God (certainly as Biblical as the love of God), the damnation of unbelievers even if they follow the Second Commandment in word and spirit, and obedience to Biblical strictures against homosexual activity as an indication of whether one believes that the Bible is the Word of God.
October 28, 2016 at 6:58 pm
I’m familiar with the term ‘open evangelical’, but ‘closed evangelical’ is a new one to me. I guess I’d be ‘closed’ (I’ve been called worse), although I don’t think it matters whether fear or love or deep thought brings someone to repentance as long as they get there. I think the complementarian/egalitarian distinction must be pretty close to what they’re talking about.
October 28, 2016 at 3:53 pm
On Googling “Was Billy Graham an Evangelical?” I found this article from a 2015 issue of _Christianity Today_. Lots of interesting comments, including a reference to elements of “moralistic therapeutic deism” some found in Graham’s approach (disapprovingly, of course–and rebutted by others).
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/february-web-only/is-billy-graham-evangelical.html?start=3
January 24, 2017 at 12:46 pm
The list revbmrobison posted below is quite good. I had that personally exhilarating sense of agreeing with nearly everything on it, with some minor hesitations over numbers 8 & 9.
January 26, 2017 at 9:55 pm
Thanks for getting the blog open again! I think I would have missed Fr. Robison’s last post, which is so good, if you hadn’t done it.
October 29, 2016 at 4:36 pm
Pete Broadbent has a piece on “open evangelicalism.”
http://bishopofwillesden.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-evangelicalism.html?m=1