Confusion about Bishop Scriven and renunciation
There seems to be some confusion about the status of Bishop Henry Scriven’s status according to Thinking Anglicans.
There seems to be some confusion about the status of Bishop Henry Scriven’s status according to Thinking Anglicans.
“How do we grow the organization?” … learning how to go from being a hospitable organization to being a totally welcoming one.
Church officials have been scrambling to downplay the decision announced over the weekend and portray it as a first step in ending the only formal schism in modern Catholicism. But Jewish leaders said the move threatens decades of interfaith dialogue and could harm plans for Benedict’s planned trip to the Holy Land later this year.
Churches are becoming more involved with systemic answers to poverty and lack of health care as well as offering hands on services.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks and Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield, Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism unite
In the case of prayer we do not pray in order to change God’s plan, but in order to obtain by our prayers those things which God planned to bring about by means of prayers, in order, as Gregory says, that our prayers should entitle us to receive what almighty God planned from all eternity to give us.
Language trips off the tongue before it is ever written down. Language is sound, and names are meant to be said, cried and whispered. In love, in friendship, in tears and laughter, in prayers. Names are to be spoken in the relationships which make up the fullness of human living. Names recall for us the essence of a person.