Solange De Santis was announced as the next editor of Episcopal Life Media today. Solange, a Canadian follows Jerry Hames, also hired from a position in Canada, who retired from the position last year.
The Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali has written an essay on the dangers that a declining Church of England pose to that nation, and how a declining consistent Christian voice will lead to a moral vacuum that “radical Islam is threatening to fill. Simon Barrow, writing in the Guardian takes Nazir-Ali to task and attempts to refute his main points.
The Supreme Court of the province of British Columbia has ruled in favor of the Anglican Church of Canada and against that of a group of dissenting parishioners who have aligned themselves with the Anglican Network in Canada.
News is starting to be received of a significant escalation in the conflict between a Brazilian Anglican priest and his congregation and a group of wealthy land owners. According to reports, employees of the land owners used heavy construction equipment and gunfire to destroy the chapel of an Episcopal Church at Primeiros Passos Camp near the Brazilian city of Cascavel.
According to news reports, Dunkin Donuts has pulled an ad that featured spokesperson Rachel Ray, a Food Network personality, because of concerns that her outfit was communicating a message of sympathy or support for Islamic terrorists.
AD 70 and the destruction of the Temple thus triggered the formal break between Christianity and Judaism, and was one of the driving forces in the writing of the New Testament. In their own grappling with the laws of the Temple and the mysteries of Christ, the authors of the New Testament present their own vision of the Temple—one not built by human hands.
Merely being satisfied with what we already have is not sufficient; we also have to confront our desire to have more things and more money. We have to “decide what is enough and then stick to it in order to save our very souls.”