Thinking about the property disputes
June 27, 2007
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The California Court of Appeal’s decision essentially has tied the trial court’s hands, and an eventual judgment in favor of the Diocese is inevitable.
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Rwanda on the Lambeth invitations
June 27, 2007
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We feel that the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury are tantamount to a threat, and we cannot accept this.
At Jamestown the Presiding Bishop points to the evil and the good in our history
June 27, 2007
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“The humility to re-examine our certainties will begin the prophetic re-telling of those tales,” the Presiding Bishop added in her homily.
African Anglicans: are they endangered?
June 27, 2007
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Gospel songs thundered through the speakers as televangelist Benny Hinn landed outside Uganda’s national stadium last month in an immaculate white helicopter, before addressing 40,000 enraptured faithful.
“The right of the general church to enforce a trust on the local parish property is clear.”
June 27, 2007
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See inside for a roundup on yesterday’s court decision favoring the Diocese of Los Angeles.
When it comes to hospitality, we lack practice
June 27, 2007
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Hospitality has become a one-way street. We determine who is invited and who is excluded because it is our home, our castle. Such an interpretation is not about welcoming anyone-it is about control. Welcoming someone has become secondary to an assessment-a judgment by me as host about the kind of stranger that is welcome and the type of welcome that is appropriate.
Keeping vigil
June 27, 2007
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Another of the standard tools of the desert is the vigil. Keeping a vigil consists in changing one’s pattern of sleeping and using tiredness or the stillness of the night to foster a quiet attentiveness to God’s presence. The Christian tradition recommends vigils to those who are discouraged or in danger of giving up on the journey back to God.
Presiding Bishop tells deacons to nag the church
June 27, 2007
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Deacons are called to serve the poor, weak, sick, the lonely and those who have no other helpers and to interpret the needs and hopes of the world to the church.
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