News, news, news
September 20, 2007
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News. News News. Reports from everywhere. Have a look at what the mainstream media is saying about the House of Bishops meeting that began this morning in New Orelans.
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Year: 2007
Canterbury on Uyo
September 20, 2007
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has diplomatically ducked out of the controversy about homophobic remarks attributed to the Bishop of Uyo. The full release reads: The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has spoken of his relief at receiving assurances over news agency reports attributing offensive remarks to the Bishop of Uyo, Nigeria, the Rt Revd Isaac Orama. “As I said last week, these reports were very concerning and it is a great relief to have had full assurances
Picketing Akinola
September 20, 2007
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Gay and Straight Episcopalians will gather at 8 a.m. for Mass at St. James’s Cathedral, 65 E. Huron St., Chicago, then drive to Wheaton for the demonstration, which will last one hour, from 10-11 a.m. Protesters will march in procession on the sidewalk opposite the Wheaton College Chapel and will not interfere with those attending the church service.
A battle against distraction
September 20, 2007
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Much of the engine driving the rhetoric and actions of some of our most vituperative detractors is the simple fact that the combination of sex, the Bible, and lawsuits grabs emotional attention and headlines. Seeking reconciliation and willingness to hold disagreement honestly in community doesn’t.
John Coleridge Patteson
September 20, 2007
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This is what they did for the sick. They were not ashamed to carry the bucket of waste matter and take it to the sea; they washed out the bucket and brought it back into the sickroom. Then I thought that they were doing what the Bishop had told us in school, that we should love one another and look after each other with love, without despising anyone; we should help the weak. All this they did to those who were sick.
Survival of the kindest?
September 19, 2007
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Whatever the evolutionary underpinnings of generosity, Olivia Judson concludes that human beings are in a unique position to make the most of it. Bees swarming in a hive must resign themselves to lifelong roles as drones or workers or dominating queens, but human society is highly flexible. Thanks to the complex pathways of the human brain, enemies can become allies, underdogs can be elevated, and the noblest aspects of human nature can be passed along to future generations.
Hymn 489
September 19, 2007
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Was He sent, think you, as any man might suppose, to establish a sovereignty, to inspire fear and terror? Not so. But in gentleness and meekness has He sent Him, as a king might send his son who is a king. He sent Him, as sending God; He sent Him, as a man unto men; He sent Him, as Saviour, as using persuasion, not force: for force is no attribute of God.
Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury (668 to 690)
September 19, 2007
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On 24 September 673, he summoned the Synod of Hertford. Amongst other things, that Synod issued canons dealing with the rights and obligations of clergy and restricted bishops to working in their own dioceses and not intruding on the ministry of neighbouring bishops. The canons were based on those of the Council of Chalcedon, in 451.
Archbishop to conduct “Pirate” Eucharist
September 19, 2007
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The Lead can reveal that today – mere hours before he jets off for America in what could be a turning point in the future of the Anglican Communion – the Archbishop of Canterbury will celebrate a Eucharist with a rag-tag group of renegades and scoundrels.
On the Anglican calendar
September 19, 2007
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Archbishop of Canterbury: “Following on from his visit to the United States …, Dr Rowan Williams will visit Armenia, Syria and Lebanon, from 22nd –
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