And his fellow bishops. Read it all here (pdf). [For the moment available here in html.] It doesn’t start off well: The Most Rev. Katherine
The Joint Standing Committee of the Primates/Anglican Consultative Council met in London February 29 – March 4. Episcopal Life reports on the meeting. Some excerpts:
“It’s happening, they are coming,” said Bishop Suheil Dawani during a visit to Australia in February. “I will be there. I cannot ignore such a gathering. But I’ll give them our message of unity, of how the church must also be united, and of the importance of our ministry in Jerusalem and all over the world.”
Bishop John Rucyahana, who serves in the largest Anglican diocese in Rwanda, is in Charlotte for the Echo Foundation’s weeklong focus on genocide in Africa.
Audio and (some) video of the visit of the Presiding Bishop to the Diocese of South Carolina is now on YouTube. They are framed as
There is no question about it; the Episcopal Church has a “lingo.” We have almost as many acronyms as the United States government, from LEM (Lay Eucharistic Minister) to EYC (Episcopal Youth Community). We like to give perfectly ordinary things new and complicated names. The church’s lobby becomes the “narthex.”
The main reason that the Church is unfinished, of course, is that we humans are ourselves perpetually unfinished. We’ve all experienced the sense that there is always something more to learn, to accomplish, to become. It is this “incurable unfinishedness,” as one philosopher calls it, that sets us apart from other living things, because in trying to “finish” ourselves,