Archbishop Daniel Deng of Sudan made headlines during the 2008 Lambeth Conference for telling media that he thought openly gay bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire should resign. But now he is coming to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. How to make sure there isn’t a repeat performance?
The calendar is taking shape. The Social and Urban Affairs Committee will have an open hearing on Resolution B012 on Wednesday, 2 to 4 p. m. That resolution requests permission for the bishops in states that permit same-sex marraige to adapt Prayer Books rites for use with same sex couples.
Maybe you’ve never wanted to watch live streaming video of the Program Budget and Finance Committee hearings, but the point is, now you can.
It isn’t clear if there is a organized right wing with a coherent political strategy, while there is most certainly an organized left, and center-left. Whether that gives the left an advantage remains to be seen. If you bring too many resources to bear against an opponent who has surrendered the field, you run the risk of appearing overly zealous, and alienating voters in the process.
The Niagara Rite is intended for the voluntary use of priests who wish to offer a sacrament of blessing regardless of the gender of the civilly married persons who who wish to receive the blessing of the church and wish to affirm their life commitment to each other before God in the community of the church.
Order of the Daughters of the King (DOK), a group dedicated to prayer and service, established a new Alpha Fund for Junior Daughters but rejected proposed bylaw changes and amendments during their July 1-5 triennial gathering.
Dramatic shifts in human identity and understanding have been taking place for a very long time, and the pace of change has picked up very significantly in the last fifty years. A paradigm-shift is taking place and the Church is swept up in it.No faith community is immune. The truth is that the future will be very different than the present, and will require a dramatically different way of being “church” if we are to last more than a couple of decades into the 21st Century.
St. Columbanus called Christians “hospites mundi,” guests of the world. He gives the classic statement of peregrinatio when he speaks of it as going into exile, seeking the place of one’s resurrection, the pilgrimage to heaven, the true home. “Therefore let us concern ourselves with heavenly things, not human ones, and like pilgrims always sigh for our homeland, long for our homeland.