The vote to explicitly allow Canadian Anglican clergy to perform same-sex blessings was defeated by a very small margin by the Bishops of the church. The lay and clergy votes both supported its passage.
American schools are awash in moral instruction — on sex, multiculturalism, environmental awareness and so on — and basically none of it works according to David Brooks, who offers some thoughts on why this is so.
The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada has passed a resolution that the blessing of same sex unions is not in conflict with core doctrine.
The Episcopal Church has largely failed to attract new twentysomthing members according to most demographic data. Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona thinks that the Episcopal Church has much to learn from Emerging Chuch movement.
An emerging fixture in American teen culture are social networking sites such as Face Book and MySpace, but as Caitlin Flanagan explains, there is a dark side to these sites that parents and educators must address
Once we owned a cat named Nora who seemed to have set up shop at a middling level on the ascent to God. Placid and fat, Nora spent her mornings lying in a pool of sunlight near the back door, and sometimes she gazed into the distance as if she were seeing something of great importance hidden from the rest of us.
Canadian General Synod has defeated a resolution that would call for 60% to pass the resolutions on same sex blessings.
This summer, Episcopalians in at least 20 dioceses are reaching out to them — children under under the radar of government aid — by sending them to summer camp for a week of learning and fun. Read Val Hymes’ report.
That this General Synod accept the conclusion of the Primate’s Theological Commission’s St. Michael Report that the blessing of same-sex unions is a matter of doctrine, but is not core doctrine in the sense of being credal, and that it should not be a communion-breaking issue.