“The right of the general church to enforce a trust on the local parish property is clear.”
June 27, 2007
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See inside for a roundup on yesterday’s court decision favoring the Diocese of Los Angeles.
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Year: 2007
When it comes to hospitality, we lack practice
June 27, 2007
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Hospitality has become a one-way street. We determine who is invited and who is excluded because it is our home, our castle. Such an interpretation is not about welcoming anyone-it is about control. Welcoming someone has become secondary to an assessment-a judgment by me as host about the kind of stranger that is welcome and the type of welcome that is appropriate.
Keeping vigil
June 27, 2007
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Another of the standard tools of the desert is the vigil. Keeping a vigil consists in changing one’s pattern of sleeping and using tiredness or the stillness of the night to foster a quiet attentiveness to God’s presence. The Christian tradition recommends vigils to those who are discouraged or in danger of giving up on the journey back to God.
Presiding Bishop tells deacons to nag the church
June 27, 2007
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Deacons are called to serve the poor, weak, sick, the lonely and those who have no other helpers and to interpret the needs and hopes of the world to the church.
Another group wants its own bishop
June 26, 2007
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Another organization of breakaway churches is requesting a bishop who will support those who cannot accept the ordination of women.
Diocese of Los Angeles wins appeal
June 26, 2007
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Court records reveal that the Diocese of Los Angeles has won its case, on appeal, against St. James, Newport Beach, St. David’s and All Saints.
Virginia breakaway churches struggling
June 26, 2007
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More than half of the breakaway churches associated with Bishop Martyn Minns and the Nigerian Church in North Amerca (CANA) can’t afford to give funds to the lawsuit with the Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church or have made no plans to do so.
Building funded by Orombi’s American friends
June 26, 2007
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The Archbishop of Uganda builds Provincial Center with award of $25,000 by Americans for not supporting homosexuality.
Prayers pay off
June 26, 2007
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Offerings of gratitude make possible $2,430,342.46 in grants given around the world from Pakistan to Mississippi through the United Thank Offering.
Be fruitful and teach your children well
June 26, 2007
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For much of the 20th century the mainline fertility by age cohort was just over two, barely enough for zero growth. In contrast, conservative fertility in the early part of the century was almost one more child per woman; more recently it remains above but is nearly equal to mainline fertility.
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