Author: Stephen Noll

So let’s remember that the Lambeth Conference was not conceived as a garden party or a photo op but rather as a solemn assembly of bishops who have vowed to…

I doubt the final Living in Love and Faith Report will be lively, lovely, or faithful. I suspect it may function more like the billboard in Ogden Nash’s "Song of…

When all is said and done, why don’t the Communion Partner bishops simply agree to officiate the same-sex services themselves.

The Empty Tomb stands at the head of the Easter season as a remembrance that the Resurrection life – Jesus’ and ours – can be entered only by the gate…

Rest assured, friends, Nicholas Okoh, like Peter Akinola before him and Ben Kwashi after him, are girded with the whole armor of God. I am not sure how many other…

One of our family’s favorite Christmas activities is reading Barbara Robinson’s wonderful story, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It tells of how some ragamuffin children called the Herdmans invaded a…

I can hardly imagine what it might mean to walk away not only from the property but the heritage of a thousand-year-old parish church. And if there comes a genuine…

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, recently issued a press report about how he experiences God as father: The Most Revd Justin Welby said that calling God “father” for him…

Twenty years ago, I gave a lecture titled “Seeing Jesus: Who Did Jesus Think He Was?” Here is the way I began it (updated a bit): When I became a…

Note: I was invited to give the annual public lecture, sponsored by Uganda Christian University and its Africa Policy Centre, on the topic “Secularism on the March: The Abolition of…