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Year: 2008

Whalon on 24

August 9, 2008 1 Comment

Bishop Pierre Whalon, as one of the blogging bishops, has written extensively about his impressions about Lambeth. But in this more mainstream media piece, a 12-minute Q&A interview with France 24, Whalon explains a brief history of the Anglican church and its status as the third-largest body of Christians in the world. And when he’s asked whether he felt the move toward schism at the meeting, Whalon states firmly, “No, actually, I thought we were moving away from it.”

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Scenes from a family reunion

August 9, 2008 No Comments

Except for drawing the family tree (also known as a diagram or genogram), I determined simply to listen, watch and enjoy folks. I became the self- appointed “game cousin,” finding ways to gather facts and stories about each other through play. I believe the lighthearted pleasure we share is what keeps us returning to reunions and staying in touch throughout the year.

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Gathering the broken pieces

August 9, 2008 No Comments

There is a great waste of power in our failure to appreciate our opportunities. ‘If I only had the gifts that this man has I would do the large and beautiful things that he does. But I never have the chance of doing such things.

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Of Messages and Flags

August 8, 2008 No Comments

Tonight in the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, the flag of the United States will be carried by one of the nations newest citizens, Lopez Lomong. Lomong has only been a US citizen for 13 months, having immigrated as child from the Sudan where he was one of the “lost boys”, a forced migration of children caused by war and the persecution of christians and their communities in that nation.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury responds

August 8, 2008 17 Comments

Earlier this week we covered the controversy surrounding the release of letters by the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that his private beliefs on the sanctity of same-sex unions were at odds with the official position of the Lambeth Conference. The Archbishop has released a statement in response.

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Immigration’s effect on Evangelicalism

August 8, 2008 No Comments

The demographic makeup of the evangelical movement within American christendom is changing. The driver of this change appears to be the assimilation into evangelicalism of large numbers of immigrants from around the world. Their presence is effecting the way evangelicals as whole view the relationship between Church and State, but it’s also serving to reinforce many of the existing social views of present evangelicalism.

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Update on Pittsburgh

August 8, 2008 No Comments

Lionel Deimel, a lay person in the Diocese of Pittsburgh who is opposed to efforts to realign the Episcopal Diocese and remove it from the Episcopal Church, and perhaps from a connection with the Archbishop of Canterbury, has posted his analysis of the latest filing by that diocese in response to a lawsuit brought by one of the congregations.

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An American press flack at Lambeth

August 8, 2008 No Comments

For an American church flak like me, learning to work with the British news media has been similar to learning to drive on British roads. The enterprises are fundamentally similar, and yet one’s reflexes need reconditioning to avoid accidents.

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