“I’M TRADING MY SHAME”: A Sermon Preached on Good Friday 2018
Today we remember the Passion of Jesus Christ. The word “passion” sounds odd to us, does it not? We associate passion with positive things, like love – “I love you…
Author: Stephen Noll
The Person And Work Of The Holy Spirit
Presented at the Global Anglican Future Conference 21-26 October 2013 By Rev. Prof. Stephen Noll “Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it…
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Bishop John Rodgers Addresses the Global Anglican Future Conference 2008
By the Rt. Rev. John H. Rodgers, Jr. Note from the Rev. Dr. Stephen Noll: On November 23, 2022, my colleague and dear friend John Rodgers died at age 92.…
THE ROAD TO LAMBETH: A Statement by the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa
This Statement was authorized by the Council of African Provinces in Africa (CAPA). Its drafters are the Most Rev. Nicholas Dike Okoh, Bishop of Asaba and Archbishop of the ecclesiastical…
THE DAVINCI CODE: Fact or Falsehood?
I recently bought a paperback copy of The DaVinci Code in the airport at the beginning of a long trip. I found the first half of the book (230 pages to be…
THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE: Recalling General Convention Resolution D039 (2000)
The Rev. Dr. Stephen Noll NOTE: I attended my second ever (and last ever) General Convention in Minneapolis and wrote this as a farewell reflection on leaving for Uganda in…
THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE: With an Exposition of Resolution D039
Is it permissible in the will of God for two persons to enter into a sexual relationship outside the bond of Holy Matrimony? What is the official position (de jure)…
NO COMPROMISE ON ESSENTIALS: Why Dialogue Cannot Resolve the Sexuality Issue in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion
NOTE: I wrote this essay in 1998 just prior to the Lambeth Conference and it was published in a booklet titled The Handwriting on the Wall: A Plea to the…
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL: Why the Sexuality Conflict in the Episcopal Church Is God’s Word to the Anglican Communion
This essay is a revised version of a paper read at the “Anglican Life and Witness” conference in Dallas, Texas, on September 23, 1997. It also appears in Transformation (Winter…
KARLA FAYE TUCKER AND THE DEATH OF CHRIST: A Meditation for Holy Week
On February 3, 1998, Karla Faye Tucker, the confessed pickaxe murderer who came to faith in Christ while in prison, was executed, having been refused a pardon by the governor…