The Archive
Day: October 9, 2007
Communique from Rwanda and Burundi
The international Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN), recently concluded its triennial meeting in Kigali, Rwanda and Bujumbura, Burundi. Participants included representatives from 17 provinces of the Anglican Communion. The meeting focused on conflict transformation and exploring the role of violence in societies throughout the world.
Bill Richardson – rest in peace and rise in glory
A saint has died. The Rev. Bill Richardson, priest in New Orleans, who reached out to offer Christ to all people.
Churches and children’s health care
The Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church are urging US legislators to reconsider the vetoed legislation for funding the State’s Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Open letter to the LGBT Community from Bishop Gene Robinson
Now that the Church has had some time to absorb and consider the recent meeting of the House of Bishops in New Orleans and its response to the Anglican Communion, I’d like to share with you what I experienced at the recent House of Bishops meeting, and where I think we are as a result.
What about Generation X?
The more I see things with top-down architectures being applied to us youngish people, the more I realize it doesn’t work. I’ve seen great ideas committee-ed to death all because people older and wiser than me must control every outcome of every plan of every initiative. And the more input I got from friends of mine, the more I realized: Your invitation to me to participate doesn’t mean much if you don’t let my input—and leadership—count.
Scientist and theologian
Robert Grosseteste was a convinced expositor of the ‘light metaphysic’, regarding light both as the first metaphysical constituent of bodies and as the genetic power of all being. Divine and intellectual light, which to us are no more than analogical applications of the physical term, were to him different manifestations of the same entity.
Is baptism enough?
There is much talk at present in the Anglican communion of a new covenant to bind us together. This is seen as a solution to our problems, to our disagreements about homosexuality. Some argue that we just need to agree to certain new “essentials”. But many of us hesitate to embrace such a covenant because we already have a covenant: our baptismal covenant.