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Year: 2007

The Episcopal Church is
a Protestant Church

September 18, 2007 8 Comments

While the world turns its media magnifying lenses towards this week’s Episcopal House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans, I advise us to look elsewhere for the broader life of the Episcopal Church. … I believe the breadth and grace of the Episcopal Church exists more specifically in the thousands of parishes and communities of faith which those bishops serve.

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Too late have I loved thee

September 18, 2007 1 Comment

Good Jesu, too late have I loved thee, nor ever yet have I wholly followed thee; make me now at last wholly to love thee, and out of the fullness of thine infinite love give me all the love I might have had, had I always loved thee.

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We all need the Anglicans right now

September 18, 2007 2 Comments

“From where I stand,” says Joan Chittister, “we need those who can develop a model of faith in times of uncertainty in which the tradition is revered and the prophetic is honored. Unless we want to see ourselves go into either tyranny or anarchy, we better pray for the Anglicans so that they can show us how to do that.”

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As if things weren’t complicated enough

September 17, 2007 1 Comment

The Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, the Most Rev. Peter Jensen, is said to be moving forward with plans to institute lay presidency of the Holy Eucharist as an integral part of the ministry of the Diocese of Sydney. Significantly, the plan is to do this under the cover of existing canons, designed for others purposes, so that past legislative defeated by the rest of the Anglican Church of Australia can be ignored.

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This week’s news

September 17, 2007 3 Comments

The House of Bishops meets this week with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates Meeting and the Anglican Consultative

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A moral duty

September 17, 2007 No Comments

The Most Rev. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, says the situation in “Zimbabwe cannot any more be seen as an African problem needing an African

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Hopes for New Orleans

September 17, 2007 5 Comments

It is not within the power of the House of Bishops, the Joint Standing Committee or Archbishop Williams to stop Archbishop Akinola and his allies from breaking from the Anglican Communion. But it is within their power to appeal to the substantial minorities in the Church and the Communion who are uneasy about the course the Episcopal Church has charted, but appalled by the rhetoric and tactics of Akinola and his virulent friends.

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Hildegard of Bingen

September 17, 2007 2 Comments

Jesus Christ, the love that gives love,

You are higher than the highest star;

You are deeper than the deepest sea;

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