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.”
BBC Radio 4 wants to name a new Dahlia. First woman Anglican priest, The Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, is on the short list of 10 names.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge rules that the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is the rightful owner of the buildings and other property of
Podcast with the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on a local program of a Virginia Public Radio station recorded recently. Interview and call in format with questions on a variety of issues facing the church.
Gordon Brown: Establishment does not, however, justify the Prime Minister influencing senior church appointments, including bishops.
Churches are changing how they collect offerings and tithes as plastic is replacing cash. More and more people use debit and credit cards and pay bills online or with automatic withdrawals. Younger generations in the church don’t carry cash anymore.