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Your City: Fridley

Your blog (if you have one): http://www.arsgratia.com/

Your Anglican 'Species': Vegetable

Your 'Day Job': Network Systems Administrator

What you do for fun and re-creation?: read, listen to music, play music, practice tae kwon do, bicyce, camp, love God and others (as well as I can)

What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?: knowing when to preserve unity in the face of schism, and knowing when to let schism happen for the good of the communion

What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?: the rise of Christianity in Asia and the Global South is one - another is the potential for renewal and reform of Christianity in North America that could be lead by evangelical Anglican groups like the AMiA

What do you want Anglimergent to be? and what other Anglimergent resources, gatherings, activities or events would you find helpful for your ministry?: I'd like it to be a place where Anglicans of all kinds, and those who appreciate the Anglican way, can come together to talk, to pray, to network, and to encourage each other to grow in love for God and others in Jesus' Name

Jason Blair's Blog

Pray for North America

As I pick up my jaw from the floor, I read with sadness that none other than JI Packer is being threatened with suspension from ministry because the church he's a member of is moving under the oversight of the Souther Cone.

I won't ask anyone to come out on one side or the other of this, but to pray for the worldwide Anglican Communion, that God would powerfully intervene to bring unity in His name and for His… Continue

Posted on February 29, 2008 at 2:53pm — 16 Comments

Cornerstone Festival

If any of you happen to be going to the Cornerstone Festival this year, how about a meetup for lunch one of the days? Comment here, send an email, etc.

Posted on February 9, 2008 at 12:56pm

Greetings, Friends

(also known as: What's a non-Anglican boy like you doing in a place like this?)

Hello, all. Allow me, by way of my first post here, to introduce myself. I currently serve as an elder of a church in the Evangelical Free Church of America. I am planning to study for an MDiv at Bethel Seminary this fall, with the hope of transitioning from Network Systems Administration to vocational ministry, though I can see myself in some kind of bi-vocational… Continue