Robert Nowell
Robert Nowell is an author at Religion News Service.
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NEWS STORY: Women as Priests and Bishops Still an Issue for Church of England
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service YORK, England _ A debate on whether women may serve as bishops in the Church of England is still two years off, but the current session of the denomination’s general synod has made it clear the church still has not healed the sharp and painful divisions that emerged after its […]
NEWS STORY: Women as Priests and Bishops Still an Issue for Church of England
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service YORK, England _ A debate on whether women may serve as bishops in the Church of England is still two years off, but the current session of the denomination’s general synod has made it clear the church still has not healed the sharp and painful divisions that emerged after its […]
NEWS STORY: British Churches Embroiled in Controversy Over Easing Anti-Gay Law
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LONDON _ Like their counterparts in the United States, Britain’s major Christian denominations are sharply divided over the role of gays and lesbians in church and society. The debate has been ratcheted up a notch with controversial remarks by Cardinal Thomas Winning, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Glasgow, strongly objecting […]
NEWS STORY: British Evangelicals: Hell is There and “Occupied’’
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LONDON _ The reality of hell, and the teaching that it is “occupied to some degree,” has been reaffirmed in a 140-page report soon to be published by the Evangelical Alliance of the United Kingdom, the body linking evangelicals in the Church of England and the Free Churches. The report, […]
NEWS STORY: Carey: Bishops’ Ordinations Were Illegal
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LONDON _ Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spiritual leader of the world’s 70 million Anglicans, said Thursday (Feb. 17) the irregular ordinations of two Episcopal Church priests in a ceremony last month in Singapore were illegal under church practice and tradition. In a letter to the primates _ top leaders […]
NEWS STORY: British Churches Embroiled in Controversy Over Easing Anti-Gay Law
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LONDON _ Like their counterparts in the United States, Britain’s major Christian denominations are sharply divided over the role of gays and lesbians in church and society. The debate has been ratcheted up a notch with controversial remarks by Cardinal Thomas Winning, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Glasgow, strongly objecting […]
NEWS STORY: British Evangelicals: Hell is There and “Occupied’’
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LONDON _ The reality of hell, and the teaching that it is “occupied to some degree,” has been reaffirmed in a 140-page report soon to be published by the Evangelical Alliance of the United Kingdom, the body linking evangelicals in the Church of England and the Free Churches. The report, […]
NEWS STORY: Carey: Bishops’ Ordinations Were Illegal
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 2000
c. 2000 Religion News Service LONDON _ Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, spiritual leader of the world’s 70 million Anglicans, said Thursday (Feb. 17) the irregular ordinations of two Episcopal Church priests in a ceremony last month in Singapore were illegal under church practice and tradition. In a letter to the primates _ top leaders […]
NEWS STORY: Anglican, Roman Catholic theological panel tackles thorny authority issue
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LONDON _ A panel of Roman Catholic and Anglican theologians and church leaders, seeking to nudge efforts at unity between the two churches forward, Wednesday (May 12) called for increased cooperation among bishops of the two bodies as both bodies move to accept a reformed version of papal primacy. The […]
NEWS STORY: England’s Cardinal Hume dead at 76
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LONDON _ Cardinal Basil Hume, one of England’s most respected church leaders and ecumenists who held the Roman Catholic Church’s dissident factions together in the rocky years after Vatican Council Two, died Thursday (June 17) after a two-month battle with cancer. He was 76. Hume, as Archbishop of Westminster since […]
NEWS STORY: Church of England bishops seats safe in House of Lords reform proposal
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service LONDON _ The position of the 26 most senior bishops of the Church of England as”members of right”of the House of Lords will not be abolished under the British government’s proposal to reform the upper house of the British parliament. The proposal, made public Wednesday (Jan. 20), also suggests that […]
NEWS STORY: Carey rebukes left, right as Anglican Consultative Council meets
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service DUNDEE, Scotland _ Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey opened the 11th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council on Wednesday (Sept. 15) with a gentle rebuke of his host, Bishop Richard Holloway, primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and a missing prelate _ Archbishop Moses Tay of Singapore, who refused to […]
NEWS FEATURE: Anglican bishop defends his `Godless Morality’ as `apostolic imperative’
By Robert Nowell — January 1, 1999
c. 1999 Religion News Service DUNDEE, Scotland _ Bishop Richard Holloway of Edinburgh didn’t seem to mind that his latest controversial book,”Godless Morality,”was criticized by Archbishop George Carey at a meeting the bishop was hosting. Indeed, Holloway said, he sees the book, which prompted Carey’s criticism during his presidential address at the opening of the […]
NEWS STORY: English opponents of Anglican women priests edge closer to separation
By Robert Nowell — October 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ Opponents of women priests in the Church of England have taken another step toward establishing themselves as a separate Anglican province, preparing for the moment the Anglican denomination ordains women as bishops.”It is hard to see how those opposed to women’s ordination could be expected to accept or […]
NEWS STORY: England’s fox hunting tradition condemned as unchristian
By Robert Nowell — January 7, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service LONDON _ A small but influential English religious group, which counts Prime Minister Tony Blair among its members, has ruffled the feathers of the British gentry by condemning fox hunting and other forms of killing animals for sport.”The use of power to control and kill, diverted into pleasure, is a […]
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