Church can expand
April 2, 2008
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New York Times: The lawsuit, filed against Boulder County by the Rocky Mountain Christian Church in Niwot, Colo., is an important test of a federal
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Year: 2008
Church closes, ministry continues
April 2, 2008
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We cannot know what St. Michael & All Angels should become until we have sat with the people of Avondale and learned from them what their needs are and how we can fit into that. The Episcopal diocese wishes to remain in the neighborhood and to become a more integral part of it.
– Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal, Diocese of Southern Ohio.
What Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, thinks
April 2, 2008
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I cannot support any of the proposed amendments to the bill, which call for the appointment of a male bishop with jurisdiction for those who oppose the authority of a woman bishop. To do so would be to sanction schism, to threaten the unity of the church. If the Church in Wales refuses today to ordain women to the episcopate, it will be in danger of giving the impression that: the maleness of Jesus is more important than his humanity
The empty space in the photograph
April 2, 2008
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As Anglicans, we should be ashamed that Gene Robinson has been disappeared from Lambeth, but we should keep that image always before us as a reminder: if it can happen to one, it can happen to all and to any. Gene was erased for pure politics, nothing more. His disappearance was designed to keep power in the hands of the status quo.
The praying people
April 2, 2008
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From what I have now written you, you will learn, Christian brethren, that plants are ripening here for the harvest that comes on apace, before the reapers can be prepared to enter in. But you will like to know something further, viz., in what have the two years promised fruit, where we have been laboring? Seeds of glorious light have been sown, and they are even now shooting forth branches which promise, in due time, an abundant harvest.
More about Honor Moore
April 1, 2008
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Publisher’s Weekly has an interview with Honor Moore, Bishop Paul Moore’s daughter, whose recent book about her father and family has stirred controversy within the family and within the Episcopal Church and the diocese that Bishop Moore served. The article helps to put Honor’s effort into a fuller context within her own life journey.
Faith on campus
April 1, 2008
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There are plenty of anecdotal stories about hostile responses to any attempt to talk about Christian faith on today’s college campuses. There are also stories about how that sort of conversation is gratefully received by students. Which view, hostile or grateful, is right?
Clergy protest by refusing to bless marriages
April 1, 2008
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An article in the Baltimore Sun this morning reports on clergy in a number of denominations and religions who are beginning to refuse to solemnize weddings between men and women as a form of protest against what the clergy perceive as discrimination by the state in not allowing legal forms of same-gender blessings to be recognized.
Opportunity, not Crisis
April 1, 2008
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Tom Ehrich sees opportunity where others have voiced frustration when looking at the results of the recent Pew survey on Religion and Public Life. If people are seeking and moving from church to church, rather than bemoan the fact, we should be getting prepared for those who are going to be coming.
Another report on San Joaquin convention
April 1, 2008
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More information is becoming available about the special convention held over the weekend. An article published this morning highlights a quote by the Presiding Bishop that the actions taken in San Joaquin may be a model for similar situations in other parts of the church.
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