An Episcopal congregation in Bedford, NY is helping to fund renovations to a Baptist congregation’s building in the same community. The Episcopal congregation not only used endowment income to help support the renovations, but has also become involved in helping to raise the additional funds needed to complete the work.
Ruth Gledhill has published the transcript of an extensive interview given by Bishop Gene Robinson to Andrew Collier a Scottish journalist. In the interview Bishop Robinson discusses the extent of the challenge that full inclusion of gay and lesbian christians poses to the Anglican Communion and some of his own thoughts and experiences as a gay man in ministry in the Episcopal Church.
Earlier this week, the Cafe reported on the meeting taking place in Spain between bishops of the Global South and bishop of the Episcopal Church in the states. Trinity Church on Wall Street in NY underwrote much of the expense of the program and is today featuring news about the results on their website
The BBC is predicting additional rainfall in the hardest-hit regions of Britain. The flooding has claimed at least 4 lives over the week.
I still haven’t figured out how you are sure that the Holy Spirit is calling and when she is not. It makes me wonder about the disciples and their call to follow Jesus. How did they know that it was the right thing to do? Did they weigh the pros and the cons? Did they follow their gut?
Three years later at the 1880 Convention, the persistent Dr. Huntington tried again. He proposed a joint committee to consider “whether in view of the fact that this Church is soon to enter upon the second century of its organized existence in this country, the changed conditions of national life do not demand certain alterations in the Book of Common Prayer, in the direction of Liturgical enrichment and increased flexibility of use.”