What struck Saul on the road to Damascus strikes many even now. Others experience dramas less vivid but enjoy transformations no less complete. Truth unfolds. And if a winter Sunday in London inspired a process that led to a May morning in Richmond, then something happened before — and something happened since.
We long to see the consecration of women bishops in the Church of England, and believe it is right both in principle and in timing. But because we love the Church, we are not willing to assent to a further fracture in our communion and threat to our unity. If it is to be episcopacy for women qualified by legal arrangements to “protect” others from our oversight, then our answer, respectfully, is thank you, but no.
In preparation for the second of the three phases of litigation between the parties in the property dispute between the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and the CANA churches, the parties have filed supplemental briefs. The trial on the constitutionality of the 57-9 stature is scheduled for May 28. Whatever the outcome of that trial, a third trial is scheduled for October to decide the ownership.
Did you know the word “conspire” means to breathe together? Take a breath. Now blow it out again. There! You have just launched a conspiracy. You can hear the word “spirit” in there too—to conspire—to be filled with the same spirit, to be enlivened by the same wind.
Today we work under an operating principle that assumes that I will only pay for the cost of my care, and I want that cost as low as possible. Know it or not, we are all caught up in that game: insurer, employer and consumer. None of us want to pay more than what is supposed to cost to care for me and me alone.
Episcopal Life reports on the Archbishop of Ireland’s remarks to the Church of Ireland’s General Synod. The Most Rev. Alan Harper reflects on his visit
St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in the Bronx, New York City, is a center or work against gun violence. Episcopal Life reports on a Mother’s Day
With summer on the horizon in the northern hemisphere the Church of England’s Environmental Adviser, David Shreeve, is calling for households to switch off their
…with an increasing number of troops being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the modern military is debating an idea Gen. Washington never considered — awarding one of the nation’s top military citations to veterans with psychological wounds, not just physical ones.
Now that he’s on the brink of realizing one fantasy, Allen has concocted another. “I’m hoping the Phillies not only win, but that they pitch a no-hitter,” he says. “And I’m hoping the owners are so impressed that they ask: ‘Who was that fat, bald priest who sang the national anthem?’