Daniel Burke of Religion News Service has compiled a round-up of various reactions to the departure of Bishop Robert Duncan and others to form another anti-gay Christian denomination in North America.
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While the state will not allow us to officially marry same-sex couples, we believe the same blessing ceremony afforded to men and women should be afforded to same-sex couples.
The summer I was 16, my rector and his wife (my godmother) invited their same age niece Mary and me on a European spiritual adventure. The purpose of their trip was to visit the surviving cathedrals he had grown to love during WWII. He had been an Army-Air Force pilot and on one terrible mission high in the clouds over Germany had a spiritual conversion that led to his ordination in the Episcopal Church after the war.
An example of the Faith and a life of humility,
as a teacher of abstinence
you did inspire and lead your flock
and through your truthfulness of your deeds
were exalted by greatness through your humility
uplifting all and by poverty gaining wealth.
Accepting Bishop Iker’s voluntary renunciation now rather than waiting for the March meeting of the House will do much to alleviate the difficult circumstances facing the Episcopalians in Fort Worth, who are functioning in a Diocese devoid of any formal leadership.
The Michigan Liberal reports that the Bishops of the Episcopal dioceses and the ELCA Synods of Michigan have together issued a statement about the crisis
President-elect Barack Obama has accepted the Washington National Cathedral’s invitation to host a prayer service in honor of his inauguration on Wednesday morning January 21.
Krista Trippet speaks with Binyavanga Wainaina to explore the complex ethics of global aid. Wainaina is a young writer from Kenya and “is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective” to the morality and efficacy behind many Western initiatives to abolish poverty and speed development in Africa.”