Amazing Grace Project
June 2, 2008
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The Anglican Church in Canada wants to have a video present wrapped and ready in time for Christmas. Anglican congregations all across Canada are being
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Dixon and Vatican rep talk on CNN
June 2, 2008
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Bishop Jane Holmes Dixon was on CNN-Europe discussing the recent Vatican decree that any Roman Catholic participating in the ordination of a woman would be
Evaluating clergy competence
June 2, 2008
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The ministry division of the Church of England has released a report indicating that as many as half of the current parish clergy are unable
How to pick a primate?
June 2, 2008
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When Bishop Donald Harvey went shopping for a new Primate, he says that race, language and culture was a factor in his choice.
One pastor’s forty year struggle
June 2, 2008
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Christian Century describes the work of the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church and a former Pentecostal minister, who worked over four decades to establish legal and religious rights for gays and lesbians before the California Supreme Court decided to give the “right to marry” to same-sex couples.
Welcome to Covenant Week
June 2, 2008
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Today the Café begins a week-long examination of the St. Andrew’s draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant. On each of the next five days, a member of the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies will discuss a section of the proposed covenant on our Daily Episcopalian blog.
Covenant Week
Section One: Claiming our inheritance
June 2, 2008
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This inheritance comes with conditions: we commit to make use of it together with the rest of the large family of which we are members; for it is an inheritance we share. It is in this part of the draft that we agree to commit to covenant promises made to one another, to our brothers and sisters in this Anglican family.
On prayer
June 2, 2008
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Prayer is the spiritual offering which has abolished the ancient sacrifices. . . . We learn from the gospel what God has asked for. ‘The hour will come,’ we are told, ‘when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. God is spirit, and so this is the kind of worshipper he wants.’ We are the true worshippers and the true priests: praying in spirit, we make our sacrifice of prayer in spirit, an offering which is God’s own and acceptable to him. . . . What will God deny to a prayer which proceeds from spirit and truth, seeing it is he who demands it?
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