Zachariah Jok Char was only five years old when he walked 1,000 miles for the first time. One of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, he braved the desert heat and attacks by lions and hyenas, without shelter, food, water or adult protection.
Some clerics said that the removal of 10 Downing Street from the process of choosing bishops and deans could further concentrate power in the hands of a few senior prelates. If the church is not established should the polity be one where the laity and clergy have a large voice in the election of bishops and the provincial bishop as in the American model?
The church was founded in 1981 after a split with the mainline Presbyterian Church over the denomination’s increasingly liberal direction. The EPC started with just 12 churches. In the years since then, it has grown to include 188 congregations and 75,000 members.
1930 – Women allowed to vote at parish meetings. 1931 – Constitutional amendment of the diocese restores voice and vote to all resident African-American clergy.
In Tuesday’s hearing the judge said that before the appellate court’s detailed, 77-page ruling, he had been leaning toward a decision for St. Luke’s but after the appellate ruling, he was obliged to defer to the higher court and its analysis of church property precedents in California and elsewhere.
In place of the Hebrew God, Deists postulated a distant deity to whom they referred with terms such as “the First Cause,” “the Creator of the Universe,” “the Divine Artist,” “the Divine Author of All Good,” “the Grand Architect,” “the God of Nature,” “Nature’s God,” “Divine Providence,” and (in a phrase used by Benjamin Franklin) “the Author and Owner of our System.”