When Michael McManus lauds the CANA initiative and how it preserves “freedom of choice” in his syndicated column, a reader from Spotsylvania Co., Va., explains something about the freedom of choice. “My choice, like that of the majority of Episcopalians, is to remain a member of a denomination that provides safe haven for disagreement and that entertains diversity,” writes Bill Mehr.
But as for me, I have trusted in you, O LORD. * I have said, “You are my God. My times are in your hand;
The Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops have released a study document that is intended to be used as part of church-wide process to gather feedback for use by the House of Bishops in their September 30th meeting to respond to the Primate’s Tanzania Communique.
There’s been a number of articles in the media this week talking about the apparent dichotomy between holding to the Christian faith and a scientific
The Bishop of Newark says in part: “Gene Robinson has told us, there is a lot of diplomacy going on between the Archbishop’s office and the American Church, which may – or may not, create a different ecclesiastical climate and result in invitations to all bishops in good standing in the Church (which certainly includes Bishop Robinson, who was duly elected, consented and consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal church).”
It should go without saying, but bears repeating anyway, that Jesus and his disciples were all Jews. The Church emerged from Judaism, and was literally born with a Bible in its cradle. The New Testament itself may be seen as a first-century Jewish collection, and it behooves us
Mark Regnerus’ new book, entitled “Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers” is a sociological study of the ways that personal faith influences young people’s choices regarding their choices to be sexually active or not.
There’s good news and bad news in the report.
“Welcome to the Party!” said the Rev. Michael Pipkin. “It’s good to see you here.” The ‘party’ is the regular Sunday gathering of the members of The Falls Church – Episcopal, a remnant of the larger congregation that joined the Church of Nigeria.
It has been said that the lives of the early Christians consisted of “persecution above ground and prayer below ground.” Beneath Rome are the excavations which we call the catacombs, which were at once temples and tombs. Both pagans and Christians buried their dead in these catacombs.