Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is making public a letter of warning that is being sent to a bishop who is actively seeking to withdraw his diocese from the Episcopal Church, and has stated that letters to other bishops will follow.
Go back through the history of the Church. One group has wanted to say to another, “I can’t imagine how I might see Jesus in you.” I think it significant, though, that such contemporary groups are not groups that would meaningfully celebrate All Saints. There are certainly not the type to worry about leaving someone out and hedging their bets by celebrating All Souls. But we do.
This hymn was written by the Reverend Robert Lowry, D.D., a Baptist minister in New York and the editor of a number of popular Sunday school songbooks. He wrote the words this well-known hymn when he was a pastor in Brooklyn, on a hot July day in 1864 during a severe epidemic.
Westboro Baptist Church, known for its website “GodHatesFags”, has been fined for demonstrating at the funeral of a US soldier killed in Iraq. The complainant won on every count against the congregation.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on October 31 inhibited Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison from all ordained ministry pending a judgment of the Court for the Trial of a Bishop.
“By the end of the first year of operations, Unity Homes expects to have produced 250 houses and employ 70 people,” Vallette said. “Within three years, we plan to be building at least 500 houses per year, with a production and field staff of over 125 people.” Unity Homes is a nonprofit business that partners with Episcopal Relief and Development, the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi and Enterprise Corporation of the Delta.
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
Our study process has led us to the conclusion that The Episcopal Church, as with the Executive Council, is not of one mind as to the efficacy of this particular Draft Covenant in either form or content. Furthermore, some parts of the Covenant have received broad endorsement within The Episcopal Church, whereas other parts have engendered vigorous debate and opposition.
We borrowed Samhain from the Celts and kept it the night before All Saints’ Day. A number of our feast days, like Christmas and Easter, have their origins in pagan worship. For that matter, we borrowed Good Friday from Yom Kippur, and Advent from Rosh Hosannah. The early Christians had to choose what to do with the faiths that preceded them wherever they were. Most wound up grafting new traditions upon the old.
Bishop Howe of Central Florida: “The Diocese is bound to work within the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church which state that a Parish holds in trust all real and personal property for the benefit of the Diocese and The Episcopal Church. … We cannot and will not abandon those who wish to remain as members of The Episcopal Church and we will work diligently to determine whether in fact there is a sufficient number of Episcopalians in a given congregation to constitute a viable continuing congregation able to meet and worship in its own current facilities.”