Year: 2007

Clarifying Archbishop Williams’ letter to Bishop Howe

It should be understood that the Archbishop’s response to Bishop Howe was neither a new policy statement nor a roadmap for the future but a plain response to a very urgent and particular question about clergy in traditionalist dioceses in The Episcopal Church (TEC) who want to leave TEC for other jurisdictions….

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The lure of luxury

I struggle with the issue of how to balance my desire for a good life with my neighbors’ rights for the same. To the extent that I can only spend my money once, this is a zero sum game. I either spend my money on myself or on others, whether directly or as a bequest at my death.

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True community

It is quite easy to found a community. There are always plenty of courageous people who want to be heroes, are ready to sleep on the ground, to work hard hours each day, to live in dilapidated houses. It’s not hard to camp—anyone can rough it for a time. So the problem is not in getting the community started—there’s always enough energy for take-off.

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Two bishops removed in Central Africa

In a statement released on Oct. 19, the Dean of the province, Bishop Albert Chama of Northern Zambia, stated that Bishop Kunonga and Bishop Elson Jakazi of Manicaland were no longer bishops of the church and the Sees of Harare and Manicaland had been declared vacant “with immediate effect.”

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Bishop Mom

Dad is cooking, the beer is poured, Mom is catching her breath between phone calls and Ruth and Tanya Moxley wrote from Halifax about their

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Quincy stays…for now

The Diocese of Quincy decided at last weekends convention not to depart from the Episcopal Church…for now. According to an Associated Press report in the

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Think before you leap

The Archbishop of Canterbury has written an e-mail to an American bishop that tries in inject calm into a diocese where several parishes wish to

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