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Day: January 2, 2008

Over 1,000,000 served

January 2, 2008 1 Comment

Congratulations to Father Jake Stops the World which crossed the 1,000,000 mark in total visits yesterday evening. Jake is a worthy Thorn in the Anglican

On the fourth Thursday of each month volunteers from St. Stephen’s Episcopal and The Church of Hope ELCA gather to prepare lunches to take to the HIV and AIDS patients at the Los Angeles County Hospital and USC Medical Center. The group has been preparing lunches for over five years. The luncheon project was started 20 years ago by a Los Angeles synagogue.

Church of England responds to the draft Anglican Covenant

January 2, 2008 4 Comments

It would be unlawful for the General Synod to delegate its decision making powers to the Primates. This therefore means that it could not sign up to a Covenant which purported to give the Primates of the Communion the ability to give ‘direction’ about the course of action that the Church of England should take.
– The Church of England Response to the draft Anglican Communion

Bishop in Jerusalem: “Regrettably, I have not been consulted about this planned conference”

January 2, 2008 3 Comments

The first I learned of it was through a press release. We Anglicans who minister here have been left out in the cold. I am deeply troubled that this meeting will import inter-Anglican conflict into our diocese, which seeks to be a place of welcome for all Anglicans.
The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani
Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem

Recapping Episcopal/Anglican news of recent weeks

January 2, 2008 1 Comment

Some of the stories from late 2007 that you may want to catch up on if you’ve been away.

Reciprocal joy

January 2, 2008 No Comments

No one can say that the classic pattern of the liturgy of Christmas is light on the tragic side of human existence. It has its themes of the census, the exclusion from the inn, the martyrdom of Stephen, the massacre of the innocents, the flight into Egypt, and now this serious evocation of the wound of historical existence, of submission to the narrow way of becoming a unique person through utter dependence on others