The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has produced a cogent media release for reporters covering the May 28 hearing on the constitutionality of the law at issue in the case involving the diocese and breakaway parishes that have joined Archbishop Peter Akinola’s Anglican Church of Nigeria.
The Rev. George Clifford, a former Navy chaplain argues: Torture involves acts that should lie beyond the bounds of acceptable morality – always. …. Not only is torture antithetical to Christian principles and incompatible with Christian virtue, torture is also ineffective. In other words, the evil of torture very rarely if ever results in a greater good.
Ordinary Time [the Seasons after Epiphany and Pentecost] is the time of the Church, of the daily life of every Christian community, and of each one of us. It is the time not of a brief effort during which one hurries or even runs in order to progress on the way, but the time when one goes at a measured pace in order to cover a long distance.
We know that already, some bishops who do not take the same position as Archbishop Nzimbi have courageously registered for the conference. Yet others, maybe from fear, are attending as observers.
Christianity Today brings us two stories. First, CT presented a five day exchange between two emergent church figures: Tony Jones is the national coordinator of
The New Zealand Catholic reports, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has barred a controversial Australian bishop from speaking in his California archdiocese. In a
From The Point for Freedom and Democracy: Speaking last Thursday at a victory celebration held at the Buffer Zone in Tallinding, President Jammeh said that
Thinking Anglicans has a statement from the Church of Nigeria in which the director of communications, the Venerable Akintunde Popoola (or AkinTunde, both spellings are
Anglican Mainstream reports the Most Rev. Mouneer Anis, Presiding Bishop of the Middle East and Jerusalem, has written that he will not be attending GAFCON.
Referring to the agitation for the creation of Obosi Diocese, the chancellor made it categorically clear that no diocese would be created in an atmosphere of rancour and bitterness.