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Year: 2007

Reconstituted Virginia congregations gather

October 10, 2007 No Comments

For St. Stephen’s Episcopal, Heathsville, their church’s reconstitution started with an alternate coffee hour at a local tire and auto shop. “We were shocked at how many people showed up,” said vestry member Dawn Mahaffey, who stood in the church and addressed the congregation after the December 17 vote to leave the Diocese, telling them, “If there’s anybody who would like to remain Episcopalian, come see me.”

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From transparency to enlightenment

October 10, 2007 3 Comments

Do you remember the first time you ever addressed a group of people, whether it was your first sermon or your first public speaking class or your first time lay reading? It’s sort of like that, at least as I experienced it. Signing my name to a post about faith created anxious tension. Even though I wasn’t hiding my identity per se, it scared me.

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Provide a place

October 10, 2007 1 Comment

You bishops, gather the faithful with much patience, and with doctrine and exhortation, as ministers of the kingdom everlasting. Hold your assemblies with all decent order, and appoint the places for the brethren with care and gravity.

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Communique from Rwanda and Burundi

October 9, 2007 1 Comment

The international Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN), recently concluded its triennial meeting in Kigali, Rwanda and Bujumbura, Burundi. Participants included representatives from 17 provinces of the Anglican Communion. The meeting focused on conflict transformation and exploring the role of violence in societies throughout the world.

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Open letter to the LGBT Community from Bishop Gene Robinson

October 9, 2007 1 Comment

Now that the Church has had some time to absorb and consider the recent meeting of the House of Bishops in New Orleans and its response to the Anglican Communion, I’d like to share with you what I experienced at the recent House of Bishops meeting, and where I think we are as a result.

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What about Generation X?

October 9, 2007 7 Comments

The more I see things with top-down architectures being applied to us youngish people, the more I realize it doesn’t work. I’ve seen great ideas committee-ed to death all because people older and wiser than me must control every outcome of every plan of every initiative. And the more input I got from friends of mine, the more I realized: Your invitation to me to participate doesn’t mean much if you don’t let my input—and leadership—count.

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Scientist and theologian

October 9, 2007 No Comments

Robert Grosseteste was a convinced expositor of the ‘light metaphysic’, regarding light both as the first metaphysical constituent of bodies and as the genetic power of all being. Divine and intellectual light, which to us are no more than analogical applications of the physical term, were to him different manifestations of the same entity.

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