Kevin Kallsen, George Conger, and Gavin Ashenden stream their conversation about the disunity surrounding the Evangelical in the Church of England. Also, the far left is now outing their un-outed gay bishops. And yes the three amigos have their typical banter about differing ecclesiologies and other whatnots.



I think it would be helpful if you could generally limit the length of discussion to around half an hour – although it’s nearly always very interesting, it’s
Regarding favourite authors I would submit Bishop J. C. Ryle and the Tinker of Bedford, John Bunyan.
In our own time, America is the powerhouse of modern Christian publishing. Two wonderful books I’ve read recently are Credo (on the creeds) by Jaroslav Pelikan (Yale 2003) and the brilliant autobiography Hannah’s Child by the bricklayer turned theologian, Stanley Hauerwas (Eerdmans 2010).
PS I have to mention Roy Strong’s Little History of the English Country Church, a little masterpiece.
PPS And out of loyalty to the man known as the Fifth Evangelist, the biography of J. S. Bach by the incomparable Albert Schweitzer.
Why should we study theology? Isn’t this the purview of bishops behind closed doors? The cliche is ‘As we worship, so we believe’. The theology should be buried in our prayerbook. In places where we run into is it this or is it that we can use phrases such as ‘…these Holy mysteries’. Through prayer, meditation, and scholarship the bishops will not be allowed by the Holy Spirit to come up with flat dead language books of common prayer lacking heart and soul with 1979 in the name. Oops.
From whence comes the theology of BIG? The big dog eats first. The BIG church must be blessed otherwise it wouldn’t be big. Therefore we have the theology of PPPP (plenty of parking and powerful preaching). Likewise, small struggling house churches must be doing it wrong otherwise they would be BIG. The modern model for church is a gathering of good people giving praise to the Lord for slathering so much goodness on them. Not much room for wretched souls.
No matter which authors we read, new prayerbooks will be written to accommodate BIG.