ABC meets with deposed bishop
October 22, 2008
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams met with deposed bishop of Pittsburgh, Bob Duncan last week. Duncan was in London to meet with disaffected members
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San Diego diocese wins on appeal
October 22, 2008
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A trial judge ruled in favor of the breakaway members. But the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that the breakaway members “lacked the power and authority” to change the bylaws and articles of incorporation in place when it affiliated with the Episcopal Church in 1973.
The latest from the Covenant Design Group
October 22, 2008
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The Covenant Design Group publish today the Lambeth Commentary, which sets out the responses of the bishops at the Lambeth Conference in their discussions of the St Andrew’s Draft for an Anglican Covenant. The Commentary … also sets out some of the initial thinking of the CDG in response to the comments of the bishops.
Homeless numbers rise
October 22, 2008
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“Everywhere I go, I hear there is an increase” in the need for housing aid, especially for families, says Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates federal programs. He says the main causes are job losses and foreclosures.
Unanswered prayers
October 22, 2008
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Some contemporary Christian theologians propose that traditional ideas about God’s omnipotence are incorrect. God must therefore rely upon human cooperation to accomplish God’s purposes on earth. God abhors evil and suffering, but both persist, even after we persevere in collective prayer, because you and I fail to act as God’s hands, feet, and voice.
Only compost
October 22, 2008
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Receiving, and then giving back, is the way nature works. Since we are part of God’s earthly creation, we share in its cycles of living and dying. . . . Knowing that we will ultimately give back our physical selves—“these last few molecules of ‘I’”—to the earth, we can choose to live with either gloom or humor, which is delightfully related to the word humus, the Latin form of adamah.
PB: No to consideration of Covenant at GC2009
October 21, 2008
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If a proposed Anglican covenant is released in mid-May for adoption by the Anglican Communion’s provinces, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will “strongly discourage” any effort to bring that request to the 76th General Convention in July.
Voting is an act of stewardship
October 21, 2008
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Voting and political participation are acts of Christian stewardship, in which citizens can engage in a common conversation about the future of our nation and the world.
Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?
October 21, 2008
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There is a huge amount of animus toward Islam among the voting public — a poll last year by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 45 percent of Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who was Muslim.
Biblical literalists vote white
October 21, 2008
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The level of religious service attendance had no effect on choice of candidate by race, according to the survey. However, spiritual affiliation, view of the Bible and the racial composition of congregations did, he said.
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