Lenten Studies Program 2009

St Peter’s Anglican Parish, Fredericton

Study Sessions: The Bishop Medley Era II (continued from 2007)

March 8  2:30 - 3:30

Session # I: The First Lambeth Conference and Medley's Charge of 1868 (full text here)

March 15: 2:30-3:30

Session # II: Bishop Medley's Charges of 1871 and 1874  (full text here)

March 22: 2:30-3:30

Session # III: Bishop Medley's 1877 Charge, Provincial Synod, Lambeth 1878 and the Election of a Successor    (full text here)

March 29: 2:30-3:30

Session # IV : Bishop Medley's Charges of 1880, 1883 and 1886: Lambeth 1888 and the Closing Years        (full text here)

This year's Lenten Studies will examine the life of the Church of England in Colonial New Brunswick from 1868 to 1892. The wealth of information found in Medley's Charges and extant sermons will be employed as the lens through which we view the issues, debates, and spirit of the Church in that dynamic and evolving era. Church construction, mission expansion, economic upturns and depressions, Synod establishment, poverty, Evangelicals, High and 'Broad' churchmen, advances in travel, and the emerging Anglican Communion all form part of the engaging fabric of the Medley era Church.