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Day: April 24, 2007

To Save This Fragile Earth

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“The Easter promise is that God can bring life out of this threatening death. The God who raised Jesus from the dead can raise us from something less than life—our driven, wasteful lives—to life itself, a life that is simpler, more connected to the Great Economy of nature, more rooted in its place, and more committed to renewing and caring for this vulnerable nest, this fragile earth.” said the Very Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III during his Easter III sermon, April 22, 2007—Earth Day. “”The Spirit is moving in our world now to renew the face of the earth.”

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Currents in world growth shaping Methodist church, too

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The United Methodist Church is the latest Protestant group caught in the shifting currents of world Christianity. While the American denomination is shrinking at home, its congregations in the developing world are growing explosively, with similar implications to worldwide growth in the Anglican Communion, according to this AP article.

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Noted Del. clergyman and Episcopal leader to retire

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The Rev. Canon Lloyd S. Casson, clergyman and noted leader in the Episcopal Church, will be honored June 3 by the Wilmington, Delaware community and his parish as he officially retires after 43 years of ministry.

A native Delawarean, Casson has served for 10 years as the rector of the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, a unique parish formed out of the union of two historic Episcopal churches in Wilmington, Delaware—one with a predominantly white membership and the other predominantly black—committed to being an instrument of reconciliation and diversity.

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Moral vision should be at the heart of politics

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In his lecture this evening in Hull, birthplace of William Wilberforce, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will urge politicians to rediscover the moral energy and vision which inspired Wilberforce; defend the right of the citizen to call the state to account for its actions; and ask whether we still believe in the notion of “a moral

state.”

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The truth about you

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Maybe most long-term relationships develop similar weirdnesses, I don’t know. But I do know that every few years my husband Scott latches onto a phase that he repeats several times a day for no discernable reason. In the late 1980s, when we first moved to Maine, he started

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Another resignation

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The Rev. Praveen Bunyan, rector of St. James Church Newport Beach, has resigned after confessing to inappropriate conduct with an adult female parishioner. St. James,

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In the victim’s company

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What I have said so far suggests a provisional definition of the primary stage in preaching the resurrection as an invitation to recognize one’s victim

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