The Washington Post is featuring highlights from an interview with the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The full interview will presumably run soon.
Updated – Integrity statement added at end President-elect Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to offer a prayer as part of his inauguration ceremonies has provoked
As I count our blessings I see that in the past two years our parish has grown from 27 people to over 140. We’ve gone from having no budget and a Navy Chaplain as our part-time priest to having two priests on staff, a proposed 2009 budget in excess of $250,000 (10% of which is dedicated to outreach and another 10% is dedicated to the diocese), a full-time Music Minister, and a wonderful group of kids in Sunday School.
According to Second Harvest, one of America’s largest hunger relief organizations, more than a third of low income households are eating less or skipping meals because they have no money to buy food.
The Vatican Friday urged governments around the world to decriminalize homosexuality but said a proposed U.N. resolution on the issue went too far. Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said the Holy See’s delegation explained the position at the United Nations late on Thursday, criticizing the wording of a European-backed text that champions decriminalization of homosexuality.
The Diocese of Virginia has responded today to a ruling in a Virginia court that the 19th century Virginia statute governing the distribution of property in the event of a denominational split applies in the case of the CANA churches of northern Virginia.
The Report of Mission and Resources 2008, the annual report of the work accomplished through the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society budget in 2008, has been released on the web at: www.episcopalchurch.org/missionreport08. This annual report is required by General Convention and this year includes multimedia and downloadable resources.
The Vatican has decided that there is more to be lost than to be gained by moving now to create a safe-haven within the Catholic Church for Anglo-Catholics who feel they can no longer remain part of the Anglican Communion but who wish to remain within distinctive forms of Anglican worship and theology.
In the middle of the wonderful, bright, flashy displays that I see while walking the streets of New York, I struggle. I want to find a place within myself to enjoy that which I see without forgetting the other part of my life, the one grounded in serving Christ in a faraway place where we don’t have enough of anything, much less the extra needed to decorate lavishly.
Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. But now it is with the voice of our contemporaries that he speaks, with the eyes of store clerks, factory workers, and children that he gazes; with the hands of office workers, slum dwellers, and suburban housewives that he gives.