The Secretary of the Order of the Daughters of the King, Grace Sears, wrote a letter to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to assure her that there is no intention to remove the Order from the Episcopal Church.
Robin Eames, the retired primate of the Church of Ireland, or Rt Revd the Lord Eames of Armagh, as he is called when he is at home, was chair of the panel that produced the Windsor Report. In a recent lecture, he spoke of reconciliation and looked back at his committee’s handiwork.
The Rev. Jan Nunley reports at her blog, Jawbones that due to budgetary concerns diocesan partnerships with Episcopal Life will be discontinued.
The General Theological Seminary has a riddle for you: When is a $29 million lease a liability?
When it is listed according to GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).
The prayer book doesn’t just show us how to worship; it also inculturates us into classical Anglican theology that is heir to both the teachings of the Historic Christian West and the Protestant Reformation. One of the best and most effective vehicles for this theology and spirituality are the short prayers called collects.
The act of keeping close to the marriage of our work and vocation is the act of returning day after day, not only to the workplace, but to the physical and philosophical foundations that keep it alive in our hearts and minds as we grow and mature and even as we age and die. To be faithful to a work, we must welcome its vulnerabilities and difficulties as well as the many gifts it bestows.