Update, Monday 7:35 a. m.: It’s official. The Archbishop of Canterbury has denied the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire permission to preach
Grace Episcopal Church in Allentown PA offers grace in the city for those who come seeking spiritual and physical sustenance. PBS39 features the work of
Visiting a special convocation of the Diocese of Fort Worth with the expressed purpose of describing removal to the Province of the Southern Cone is an unprecedented and unwarranted invasion of, and meddling in, the internal affairs of this Province. I ask you to consider how you might receive such a visit to your own Province from a fellow primate.
The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright will serve as revivalist for the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 28 and 29. The rector notes, “This will … be the first time that Rev. Wright will be speaking in Philadelphia since all the media attention he has recently received so we are prepared.”
“Coming here to bless a garden, especially at this time in the history of humanity, when we’re focused on how the church can be a more proactive voice in caring for the rest of creation, is an important message,”
Among the 233 stained-glass windows in the majestic edifice, LeCompte’s have a special glow. He has designed more windows in the cathedral than any other artist. LeCompte is “an artist who marries together traditional techniques and sensibilities with contemporary style,”
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…although acknowledging that commendable effort, we believe that our Communion does not need new instruments of consensus beyond those that historically have been our benchmarks in terms of identity.
Like many Anglicans I’ve got the phrase, ‘Bonds of Affection’ rolling round in my head like a melody from the radio that won’t be dismissed. I think about affection and whether it makes relationship or just happens sometimes within it. That gets more wondering about choices and how we make them, and how bonds and choices live together. And that brings an old personal story to mind.
A common trick a lot of midlife women play on ourselves is to feel, and act, responsible for everything. But Jesus, via Catherine of Siena, doesn’t recommend this: “I in my providence did not give to any one person or to each individually the knowledge for doing everything necessary for human life.