Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire responded to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision not to invite him to the Lambeth Conference today at the House of Bishops meeting: “One workshop on one afternoon and being interviewed by the secular press was not anything I was seeking. I wasn’t going to Lambeth to have another interview with the secular press.”
The House of Bishops was informed March 10 that full invitation is “not possible” from the Archbishop of Canterbury to include Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire as a participant in this summer’s Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops. Robinson, addressing the House, urged the other bishops of the Episcopal Church to participate fully in the conference, and thanked all who are willing to “stay at the table.”
Rabbi Jacob Nuesner says that Catholics and other Christians have a right to pray for the conversion of the Jews, as much as Jews have
The IRS has granted a three-week extension for the United Church of Christ to respond to an investigation the agency has begun because presidential candidate
USA Today says that in many churches Palm Sunday is going green by using palms harvested using an environmentally friendly method. This year, more than
Thinking Anglicans reports that St Deiniols Library is publishing a book called Rebuilding Communion. The aim of this book is threefold: firstly, to provide a
Bishop Marc Andrus writes on his blog about a conversation he arranged about the St. Andrew’s Draft of the Anglican Communion Covenant.
William Countryman: “The continuing power of the Anglican poetic tradition depends on the fact that it does not seek power. It gives no prescriptions; it does not compel. It springs out of the gospel of Jesus, but remains blessedly free of theology’s a priori concern to nail everything down and make sure that others toe the line.”
This truth of the power of our interconnectedness was brought home to me in an unexpected way not long ago. One recent spring I was referred by my family physician to an endocrinologist because of a growth on the right lobe of my thyroid.
The House of Bishops continued the faith-based reconciliation presentation which was begun on Saturday continued Sunday, led by the Rev. Canon Brian Cox of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the Hon. Joanne O’Donnell of the Diocese of Los Angeles.