Republican Sen. Russell Pearce referred to an Episcopal deacon and her colleagues as “antichrists” when they sought to voice their opposition to a bill designed to get local law enforcement to act on federal immigration laws.
As their triennial approaches, some members of the Order of the Daughters of the King has proposed their own by-law changes that, if passed, would clarify and strengthen the relationship between the Order and the Episcopal Church.
R. Stephen Gracey, a lay deputy from the Diocese of Ohio offers a translation of the Ridley-Cambridge Draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant “into English from the original Churchese.”
Income during the 2010-2012 triennium could be $9 million less than forecast last January, when a draft churchwide budget was approved, according to the chair of the Episcopal Church’s budgetary committee.
Many Daughters of the King are still concerned for the future of their order. As the DOK triennial approaches, with very little fanfare, a separate group called the Order of Daughters of the Holy Cross, has been incorporated by current DOK members including a current national board member.
Self-image is how we perceive ourselves as objects of others’ attention. For me to be aware of how you see me, I have to engineer an artificial “me” so I can become an object to myself – taken to its logical extremes you get the frivolities of high fashion. Presence, on the other hand, is indefensible and independent of external factors. It is a purely, or almost purely, subjective state. I am what I am.
Humility, Benedict teaches, treads tenderly upon the life around it. When we know our place in the universe, we can afford to value the place of others. We need them, in fact, to make up what is wanting in us. We stand in the face of others without having to take up all the space.