Year: 2007

Working together in Ghana

The Episcopal Church, Archbishop of Canterbury and The Anglican Diocese of Ghana work together to build a hostel to accomodate pilgrims to the Retreat Center

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Public mourning

For good or ill, the parish I serve is becoming skilled in a particular kind of hospitality: high-profile funerals. A few years ago, before I began working here, the parish opened its doors to hold a funeral for a young woman whose kidnap and brutal murder got top billing on every major news network. With television-news trucks, reporters, and cameras swarming the perimeter, a

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Church Thriving

The Presiding Bishop in Iowa: “…one of the great joys I’ve had in my first six months, getting to travel and see the health and

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An Eastern heaven

Christians inherit two basic views of heaven. The popular Western version tends to be of the static angels-and-harps variety. I prefer the Eastern version. It has more of the flavor of dynamic continuity. We move “from glory to glory” right now, not simply after we’re dead.

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Coverage commences

The Rev. Mark Harris, the Mad Priest and the Associated Press have early coverage and commentary on the installation of a bishop from the Church

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Saturday Daily Office

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you keep me safe;

you stretch forth your hand against the fury of my enemies;

you right hand shall save me.

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New Bishop for OK

Former police officer, The Rev. Dr. Edward J. Konieczny was elected bishop of Oklahoma today on the first ballot. He has served as rector of

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Who’s watching?

Who are the intended audiences for Archbishop Peter Akinola’s visit to Virginia today?

Episcopalians?

That seems unlikely. Almost four years after the General Convention which confirmed V. Gene Robinson’s election as the Bishop of New Hampshire, Akinola has managed to win the loyalty of fewer than one third of one percent of the Church’s congregations

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