Bishop Hollingsworth spoke recently at an interfaith service of thanksgiving for Domestic Partner Registry in Cleveland. His remarks are now available.
That’s what President Obama said to his director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships when he saw the Presiding Bishop’s crosier.
The UMC’s 50 active U.S. bishops voted to give up their planned pay raises for next year and instead reduce their salaries to the 2008 level, dropping their annual pay from $125,650 to $121,000. “The current global crisis has uncovered our hesitancy to act, but it has also gifted us with a sense of urgency and an opportunity to lead courageously,” the bishops said.
A member of the Reformed Episcopal Church writes Brad B. Root, recently appointed Chief Operating Officer of ACNA. Hap Arnold writes in response to Root’s
New services report that the close of the Anglican Consultative Council in Jamaica was festive and upbeat.
As we made our way to the venue for the lecture, a sister who had gone ahead turned back and spoke to me before I could enter the building, “You are white,” she said, “and Angela Davis has said that only blacks may attend.” I was crushed. I had journeyed thousands of miles to come home only to be told by a foreigner that I was not welcome.
Unless the branch is provided with the life-producing sap from its mother the vine, how will it bear grapes or what fruit will it bring forth—and from what source? . . . For no fruit of virtue will spring up anew in those of us who have fallen away from intimate union with Christ.