Interview on CBC's Ottawa Morning Show
So HERE is the link for the audio file from my interview with Kathleen Petty this morning on CBC's Ottawa Morning program.
I was called yesterday for an opinion on the Vatican's announcement of an Apostolic Constitution allowing for disaffected Anglicans to join the Roman Catholic Church. I guess they liked my answers, because they asked if I would come on the show this morning. I had figured that I would be one of several on a panel or something, but instead it was just me and the host Kathleen Petty.
This was certainly not a great interview on my part (in my opinion) but it was my first time in this situation. So please be honest in your comments, but also gentle (us radio neophytes are easily crushed). I had wanted to say more about the fact that this announcement from the Vatican has provided external proof (i.e. from a body outside the Anglican Communion) that there it IS in fact a broken (or at least fragmenting) Communion. As much as the liberals and institutional loyalists will say that these issues (i.e. controversies over human sexuality, Scriptural authority, Jesus' uniqueness, and on and on it goes) are not really that big a deal, now we have the Pope recognizing that these issues have put many Anglicans "out on the street" as ecclesiastical orphans. It is NOT just "business as usual" as the Archbishop of Canterbury said on Tuesday. The Pope has just given us another sign that (forgive me for stretching this metaphor) that the emperor has no clothes. The Anglican Communion is fractured.
But regardless, as my wife said when I called her after the interview was done, I DID get to talk about the supremacy of scripture and give a micro testimony to Jesus' transforming work in my life on CBC!
I was called yesterday for an opinion on the Vatican's announcement of an Apostolic Constitution allowing for disaffected Anglicans to join the Roman Catholic Church. I guess they liked my answers, because they asked if I would come on the show this morning. I had figured that I would be one of several on a panel or something, but instead it was just me and the host Kathleen Petty.
This was certainly not a great interview on my part (in my opinion) but it was my first time in this situation. So please be honest in your comments, but also gentle (us radio neophytes are easily crushed). I had wanted to say more about the fact that this announcement from the Vatican has provided external proof (i.e. from a body outside the Anglican Communion) that there it IS in fact a broken (or at least fragmenting) Communion. As much as the liberals and institutional loyalists will say that these issues (i.e. controversies over human sexuality, Scriptural authority, Jesus' uniqueness, and on and on it goes) are not really that big a deal, now we have the Pope recognizing that these issues have put many Anglicans "out on the street" as ecclesiastical orphans. It is NOT just "business as usual" as the Archbishop of Canterbury said on Tuesday. The Pope has just given us another sign that (forgive me for stretching this metaphor) that the emperor has no clothes. The Anglican Communion is fractured.
But regardless, as my wife said when I called her after the interview was done, I DID get to talk about the supremacy of scripture and give a micro testimony to Jesus' transforming work in my life on CBC!
