Singing with joy :
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article43940
- Author
- Nicholls, Linda (Linda Carol), 1954-
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2022 June
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2022 June
- Volume
- 148
- Issue
- 6
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- "As a young Christian I was captivated by Jesus' vision for our human community rooted in love and lived with mercy, compassion, justice and human dignity". "Yet me experience of God's community revealed that we could also be the place where human desires could wage battle in jealousy, rivalry, power or other manifestations of broken boundaries. The church is a living paradox with a vision of the possibilities for healthy, whole human community in relationship with God ... alongside the capacity to harm and hurt one another deliberately and accidentally through human weakness, misunderstandings and sun. Over the past few months, we have seen this paradox revealed as allegations of misconduct led to the resignation of Mark MacDonald and #ACCtoo raised concerns about the ways in which the church handles allegations of sexual misconduct". "It is understandable that when any of these things happen, anger boils over at the disparity between out vision and our reality. We want the church to be perfect now. We want it to be a safe haven in a broken world. When it is not, our disillusionment is painful. Some walk away from the Church at our hypocrisy. Some lash out in anger. Others acknowledge the paradoxical tension that we always live with and dig in to the hard work of transforming hearts, minds and systems to come closer to the reality we desire -- the kingdom of God". "May our Church be humble about its weaknesses yet committed to its vision of transformation into the vision of the kingdom of God".
- Author is "the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada".
- Subjects
- Sin - Anglican Church of Canada
- Hypocrisy - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Hope - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Faith - Anglican Church of Canada