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Year: 2007

Saint Nicholas Day, December 6

December 6, 2007 No Comments

It is important to bring St. Nicholas’ Christmas cheer to New York because of the saint’s historic significance in the city — the first church in Fort Washington was called St. Nicholas and St. Nicholas Avenue is a main thoroughfare. “One of New York’s great hotels was St. Nicholas on Broadway and the Russian Orthodox has its glorious St Nicholas Cathedral on 97th,” he said. “St. Nicholas, of course, is the name of the church destroyed at 9/11, and whose return as a church many eagerly await.”

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An Episcopal church makes local giving easier

December 6, 2007 No Comments

The concept is simple. Shoppers browse a list of 13 local charities and the services each one can provide for a donation of $10, $25 or $50. Then the shopper makes a donation in the name of a friend or family member, either for one of those amounts or an amount of their choosing. Details about the donation are written on small certificates printed on card stock. The gift-giver tucks the certificate into a holiday card, and the alternative gift is ready for giving.

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Look to your mother

December 6, 2007 1 Comment

Look for your mother of old. This is one of the deep stories of humanity—an archetype coded deep in our understanding that resonates at a subconscious, an unconscious, level. Look for your mother of old. And, lifting my eyes from my armchair Aeneid, I find it again in books dotting my shelves—from Asimov’s Foundation series to the Holy Scriptures themselves.

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Act like children

December 6, 2007 No Comments

We can choose the light. Choosing the good and the light is not always an easy process. Many give up on growth in the Christian life because they find it difficult to shake their destructive patterns of behavior. We have learned we should choose the good, but we do not always understand the role of desire. If we do not understand desire, we will never understand choice. Desire is what saves us in the Christian life.

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Bishop of San Joaquin responds to Presiding Bishop

December 6, 2007 No Comments

…the House of Bishops has “ignored my views for nearly twenty years” and blamed the wider Episcopal Church for any decision by the diocese to sever its ties and attempt affiliation with another province of the Anglican Communion.

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A death unknown

December 5, 2007 No Comments

She stopped answering the door shortly after her estranged husband died in 1990. She turned away from her friends and neighbors in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, ignoring their hellos. So when Ms. Copeman dropped out of sight altogether, people were not immediately suspicious.

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Parishioner asks, “What is this business about Uganda?”

December 5, 2007 1 Comment

“I just feel a tremendous loyalty to this church, and I am confused about this situation,” said Frances R. Maclean, 85, a member of Christ Church (Savannah) for 55 years who saw her children baptized and then married in its century-old chapel. “What is this business about Uganda?”

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Former bishop of Harare resorts to forgery

December 5, 2007 No Comments

Last week was busy for the former bishop of Harare. For one thing, the Rt Revd Nolbert Kunonga, reportedly resorted to forgery, in an attempt to block the appointment of Dr Sebastian Bakare as the diocese’s interim Bishop, and to blacken his name. For another, he travelled to Kampala, reportedly in an attempt to ally his breakaway group with the Church of Uganda.

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Archbishop in Singapore

December 5, 2007 No Comments

One of the most distinctive things about these seminars has been the experience of sharing the study of each other’s sacred text. Because when that happens, I meet the other person not as a scholar, not as the representative of some alien set of commitments, but as someone seeking to open their mind and their heart to the self communication of God.

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Duin joins beliefblogscape

December 5, 2007 No Comments

Updated Washington Times religion correspondent, Julia Duin, joins the field of religion journalists with blogs. Here’s how she describes her Belief Blog: I plan to

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