Close your eyes and picture a vicar of the Church of England. Whether you are a regular churchgoer or someone who once watched an episode of The Vicar of Dibley, your mental image will more than likely be this: a smiling, benign, inoffensive and unworldly cleric. This image has its origins in the life and ministry of one man, George Herbert (1594-1633).
The use of websites and the internet for Diocesan Bishop Search processes is becoming more and more the preferred method for gathering and disseminating information.
A fourth man has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the Episcopal Diocese of Texas and St. Stephen’s Episcopal School for allegedly covering up his sexual abuse at the hands of the school’s chaplain.
The Rev. Suzy Ward, Visalia, CA will become the first woman ordained by the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin to the priesthood on June 27 which will give the Episcopal diocese five women priests to go along with seven women deacons.
Frank Lockwood of Bible Belt Blogger thinks there is something significant about the fact that language about governmental transparency has disappeared from the introductory copy on the IamEpiscopalian Web site. Mark Harris does not.
Here is our weekly collection plate, offering some of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print.
“Crisis” recounts the sad stories of dozens of young people who, like the biblical Esau, cried for a blessing from their parents, friends and churches. All too often they have not received it. All too often they have been left broken, rejected as human beings—at the hands of Christians and in the name of the Bible.
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That collect is what Christian spirituality is all about. To withstand this scrutiny and to live in the presence of this God to whom all hearts are open, we must ground our self-understanding and our growing self-knowledge in humility, the neglected virtue that simply means knowing who we are in the sight of God, knowing our place in the order of things.