The first woman to be consecrated a bishop in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion, the Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris, was present to bless two stained glass window panels, one honoring her and the other honoring The Rev. Absalom Jones.
It’s beginning to look like Bishop Gene Robinson may well get an invite to Lambeth after all, albeit as a “voice” rather than a “vote,” according to Ruth Gledhill. She also asserts that Bishop Martyn Minns will not. Take at the letter she was sent that leads her to this conclusion.
The Tridentine Mass, the older form of the Catholic liturgy, has been experiencing a revival among traditionalists. Today, the New York Times reports, Pope Benedict XIV has given authorization for priests to use the traditional rite if they wish to do so.
They once were important leaders in Exodus, a prominent ex-gay ministry movement. But yesterday, these three individuals publicly apologized “for the harm they said their efforts had caused many gays and lesbians who believed the group’s message that sexual orientation could be changed through prayer.”
The awareness of the communal nature of exegesis was particularly highlighted in the early church’s encounter with the Gnostics, hermeneutical lone rangers who claimed to have received in secret both revelation and interpretive insight. Irenaeus, the Gnostics’ great opponent, rejected the possibility of secret revelation and interpretation because the meaning of Jesus and the
A couple of weeks ago, Ruth Graham, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, died after a long illness. As an admirer of Billy Graham, I was sad that his wife had passed away, but I will confess that one of the first questions that came into my head when I heard the news was “where will she be buried?”
The California Court of Appeal’s decision essentially has tied the trial court’s hands, and an eventual judgment in favor of the Diocese is inevitable.
We feel that the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury are tantamount to a threat, and we cannot accept this.
“The humility to re-examine our certainties will begin the prophetic re-telling of those tales,” the Presiding Bishop added in her homily.
Gospel songs thundered through the speakers as televangelist Benny Hinn landed outside Uganda’s national stadium last month in an immaculate white helicopter, before addressing 40,000 enraptured faithful.