The Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester cannot receive enough votes from standing committees in the Episcopal Church to be consecrated as bishop of Northern Michigan, according to a tally kept by an Arkansas reporter who has been in contact with all 110 dioceses as well as the Convocation in Europe.
There are two remarkable things about Marilynne Robinson, who won the Orange Prize for fiction: she’s a very good writer, and she’s a very serious Christian. Her two most recent novels. Gilead and Home, have retold the story of the Prodigal Son from different viewpoints, set in a small town on the Iowa prairie in 1956.
Dan Gilgoff of US News reports on a Pew Survey in which the percentage of respondents who listed “moral values” as their top concern plummeted
The notes of a meeting at which the House of Bishops’ Theology Committee discussed nominations to the secretive committee currently preparing a report on same-sex
The real questions underlying our state budget deliberations are: How will we make possible for every Ohioan the opportunity to engage in work that makes a contribution to society and provides income sufficient to support family and household? How will we take care that no child will go to bed hungry or go to school without the preschool preparation necessary to learn and grow?
What is a STORY DRIVE? It is a time to collect stories about all of the interesting ways that Episcopalians are involved in public policy advocacy. These stories could be about big life changing actions, seemingly small moments, or anything in between.
Six states and Dick Cheney have now dared to go where the Episcopal Church will not.
The platitudes of the Report’s Pedagogy for Christian Citizenship fail to address the hard work necessary to keep Just War Theory abreast of changes in the way that wars and violence occur in the twenty-first century. Many military ethicists, for example, would strongly argue that Just War Theory is not helpful in thinking about terrorism; instead, Christians need to develop a new model.
There are suggestions that Cranmer was engaged in drafting services in the late 1530s, but nothing was published. As early as 1536 Hugh Latimer, in a sermon to Convocation, had called for the services of baptism and matrimony to be conducted in English. In 1538 it was stipulated that a Bible should be placed in every church, that the creed, Lord’s Prayer, and Ten Commandments should be recited in English, and that no one should be admitted to communion without having learnt them.