Weep for Sydney – A Letter for Anxious Anglicans and Concerned Christians
by David Robertson, theweeflea:
I normally write this letter as a letter from Australia, but this one is different. It is more of a letter to Australia, or to be more accurate a letter in response to those of you who have contacted me and asked for help – mostly from a few of my fellow Sydney Anglicans. I’m talking about those who have been distressed and confused at what is going on in society and how the church is responding. I’m thinking of those who can’t understand why the church appears to be silent, or those who think the opposite – who think we speak too much and who are embarrassed about being ‘Sydney Anglicans’ because of what you have read in the Sydney Morning Herald, or heard on the ABC. I’m thinking of those who can’t understand why their own particular evangelical church refers to more than two genders and wants to use whatever pronouns people identify with. My heart goes out to those who don’t know what to do at work, school or University when you are being asked not just to ‘tolerate’ different sexual ideologies which go against the teaching of Christ, but indeed to ‘affirm’ them. In this post-Christian society tolerance is out. Diversity is out. Cultural conformity is the order of the day. And the Church is struggling to come to terms with this cowardly new world.
None of this is new. But what is new and why I am getting involved – (with I must say a great deal of reluctance because I don’t want to critique even by implication, individuals, unless they are heretics! And I know the backlash that always follows things like this – and I don’t want to get involved in church politics – but this is not church politics – it is about the Gospel!) – is because of this astonishing advert in Southern Cross, the magazine of the Sydney diocese.
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