For those who remain
December 7, 2007
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Bonnie Anderson, the President of the House of Deputies (a body of the General Convention), has issued a statement today after a long consultation with
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Ecumenism in a time of controversy
December 7, 2007
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Bishop Christopher Epting is the chief ecumenical officer of the Episcopal Church. In a recent post on his blog, he talks about how the recent actions of the Episcopal Church’s General Convention have effected the conversations the denomination has with other denominations and draws a lesson about the need for Anglicans to gather next year in Lambeth.
Diocese of San Joaquin meets to decide
December 7, 2007
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San Joaquin, one of the dioceses associated with the theologically conservative Network within the Episcopal Church, is meeting in annual convention this weekend. One of the orders of business it has will be to consider taking the final actions that could attempt to take itself of the Episcopal Church and join it with another Anglican Province.
My back pages
December 7, 2007
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For years I have thought about rifling through old sermon files to see whether there is a book lurking there somewhere. I suppose that publishing a book of sermons is every priest’s fantasy, after preaching week in and week out year after year. Surely there must be something valuable and permanent to make up for all that Saturday night angst and sweat.
Fountain of water
December 7, 2007
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To Thee, O Fountain of mercy, my mother poured out still more frequent prayers and tears that thou wouldst hasten thy aid and enlighten my darkness, and she hurried all the more zealously to the church and hung upon the words of Ambrose [of Milan], praying for “the fountain of water that springs up into everlasting life” [Jn 4:14].
Bishop of London: Follow the style of the Great Communicator
December 7, 2007
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Even at the very beginning of the 20th Century sermons were often reported in newspapers like “The Times” in extraordinary detail. Soon however the gatekeepers who controlled the new popular press decided that the mass market did not want to be treated to dense reasoning, copious quotations and a Niagara of dependent clauses and qualifications. In consequence, we have all had to learn to some extent or another to be ecclesiastical Ernest Hemingways.
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