From Harvard Divinity School: It is with immense sadness, but also with immense thankfulness for a singular life wonderfully well-lived, that I write to inform you that Krister Stendahl, our beloved friend, teacher, colleague, and former Dean, died this morning.
The St. Petersburg Times reports on the work of the Rev. John Kivuva, 45, a priest at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church and part-time chaplain at
While the nation’s comprehensive peace agreement, signed in 2005, provides for freedom of religion for all Sudanese, in reality there are still obstacles. “We have little freedom,” said Bishop Kondo, whose diocese is home to many southern Sudanese who fled to Khartoum during the civil war.
Several articles have come to our attention about the use of church facilities during the week, including one about Dr. Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, who wants churches to play a larger part in becoming centers for their communities.
It isn’t all that clear what that means, “fishers of men,” and it doesn’t seem to be their reason for following him: there’s no new job description here. But Jesus is promising some kind of change that begins where they are. That’s the literal meaning of the Greek, I’m told: Follow me: and I will make you to become fishermen-of-people. They will be transformed into some new version of what they already are.
I once read about a doorman who worked at the same building in Manhattan for dozens of years. On the eve of his retirement, he was interviewed about his life experience as one who opened the door for so many New Yorkers.
Howard said he was merely making official what the ministers have done by aligning themselves with Anglican bishops. He inhibited, or suspended, the clergy six months before deposing them to give them time to reconsider. “They did not desire to remain in the Episcopal Church and this just makes it official,” Howard said. “Not one of them came to me and said: ‘I want to be an Episcopalian.'”
Press watchers will want to know that Jonathan Petre has been fired as religion reporter for The Telegraph, an odd move so close to the
Susan Russell reports on the final plenaries given at last weekend’s conference on the proposed Anglican Covenant hosted by General Theological Seminary. On Ian Douglas’
More helpful language from Bishop Tom Wright, who will be in the United States selling books before you know it: Please note, I do not