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Year: 2008

Helping the Hopeline

June 28, 2008 No Comments

Earlier this month, a fellow social media producer from another corner of the blogosphere shared a draft of a video he was working on to bring attention to the 10th anniversary of 1-800-SUICIDE, also known as the Hopeline. The final version came out earlier this week, and in it, Kristin Brooks Hope Center founder Reese Butler talks about why he created the Hopeline, and some of the challenges the organization now faces as a privately funded charity operation entering its second decade of connecting callers with, as he puts it, help and hope.

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Only faith

June 28, 2008 2 Comments

While the Anglican/Episcopal world sits all atremble, watching as the Anglican bishops speak out in Jerusalem of their own disenfranchisement and waiting with excitement or trepidation the upcoming Lambeth Conference, life as a lesbian Episcopalian goes on.

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The harmony of the whole

June 28, 2008 No Comments

Many and various are the things that are made. When you take them in detail they are mutually antagonistic and discordant. But, taken in connection with the whole creation, they are agreeable and harmonious. Just as the sound of the harp, composed of many different notes, makes one symphony.

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Presbyterians move toward full inclusion

June 27, 2008 1 Comment

The Lead just received a press release from the Presbyterian centered More Light organization reporting on actions taken today at the biannual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. The actions taken today, if ratified, will eventually make it possible for gay and lesbian pastors in committed same gender relationships to serve openly in ordained ministry.

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Whither Pittsburgh?

June 27, 2008 No Comments

Lionel Deimel, an Episcopal layperson in the Diocese of Pittsburgh writes of some of the preparatory steps being taken in that diocese by laity and clergy from across the spectrum who wish to remain Episcopalian should there be a vote by other members of the Diocese to leave the Episcopal Church.

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CANA wins another round

June 27, 2008 4 Comments

A Virginia circuit court judge has ruled that the statute governing possession of church property in case of a division is consititutional. An appeal to

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Hiding Akinola

June 27, 2008 No Comments

Following a press conference at which he refused to condemn violence against gays “Akinola, previously described as a luminary of the conservative movement, has now been hidden away until Sunday afternoon, when a statement outlining a skeleton structure for a “flying communion” has been issued and, handily, when most of the press will have left Jerusalem altogether.”

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With friends like these

June 27, 2008 1 Comment

In a campaign comment ahead of today’s uncontested election in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has condemned Archbishop Rowan Williams as lacking a “moral compass” and said that gays in the church are a sign of “moral degeneracy”.

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