Lambeth to launch on Monday
January 15, 2008
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The Lambeth Conference is underway with the first event to be held next week. The media received the following invitation for January 21. Official Launch
The Archive
Year: 2008
Who is the faithiest of them all?
January 15, 2008
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Will the uneasy merger of church and state known as faith-based initiatives survive into the next administration? A Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life examination of the candidates says yes. Every major candidate is in favor of some version of the program. But others say there are signs the program is weakening.
The second-to-last supper
January 15, 2008
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At stake in many of the debates in the church and culture is the question of whether a woman can represent humanity. That issue lies behind the question, “Is America ready for a Woman President?” It hovers over many of the discussions around the still-contested issue of women in the priesthood and the episcopate.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 2008
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It was not until I became part of the leadership of the Montgomery bus protest that I was actually confronted with the trials of life. Almost immediately after the protest had been undertaken, we began to receive threatening telephone calls and letters in our home.
Confusion in Zimbabwe
January 14, 2008
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“The Archbishop of Canterbury condemns unequivocally the use of state machinery to intimidate opponents of the deposed bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga, and is appalled by recent reports of Zimbabwean police forcibly stopping Sunday services in several churches in Harare where clergy have publicly and bravely refused to acknowledge Kunonga’s Episcopal authority. Kunonga’s position has become increasingly untenable within the Anglican Church over the last year, as he has consistently refused to maintain appropriate levels of independence from the Zimbabwean Government.”
Feedback on the Covenant
January 14, 2008
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The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia and The Anglican Church of Scotland have both weighed in on the proposed Anglican Covenant. They are both respectful but clear about what they see as shortcomings to the document as proposed and leery of the assumptions behind it. Both offer alternate ways forward.
A son repents
January 14, 2008
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Francis Schaeffer was a deep evangelical thinker whose mission was to save the West from itself one intellectual at a time. His son, Frank, took him mainstream bringing his father’s work together with the agenda and ambitions of American fundamentalism. Together they helped create what we now know as the religious right. That was then. Through a combination of what might be called religious and celebrity burn-out, raising a family and deep introspection, Frank Schaeffer says he has repented of nearly everything the American Religious Right stands for.
Beloved one
January 14, 2008
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A voice from heaven tells Jesus he is a beloved son who is well pleasing. Close your eyes. Silently or aloud say, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.” Then in your mind’s eye, see Jesus and imagine his unspoken response.
Weekend in Sydney II
January 14, 2008
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Serendipitously, providentially, synchronistically, as a result of kismet, or however one’s theological worldview characterizes coincidence, the celebrant announced an afternoon forum led by the Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon and said that the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, on sabbatical from New Hampshire and present in the congregation, would attend.
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