What have the Noughties done for us?
BBC Newsnight kicks off its series What Have the Noughties Done for Us? with a look back at religion here:
BBC Newsnight kicks off its series What Have the Noughties Done for Us? with a look back at religion here:
USA Today notes that our Lutheran companions in ministry will consider the role of LGBTs with spouses who wish to serve as clergy:
President of the House of Deputies Bonnie Anderson writes to Deputies and First Alternates about their continuing responsibility to serve and requests comments on the
Faith groups, including the Episcopal Church, are fighting back against those who would keep health care options in the hands of those who have given
The Bishop of Durham wants to short-circuit the Archbishop’s timetable. He wants a decision about who is in and out of the Communion to be made NOW, not postponed until the end of 2009 when Section 4 of the Covenant is finalised (para 19).
The group’s only agenda item that surprised me was the inference that a conspiracy of bishops guides what is happening in the Episcopal Church. Anyone familiar with the Episcopal Church’s governance knows no human conspiracy could secretly manipulate such a convoluted system.
St. Francis himself passed through a period of despair lasting two years. One of his biographers, Father Isidore O’Brien, attributed this to the fear that his rule of poverty would be modified, to his disillusionment over the gross behaviour of many of the Crusaders, and to his increasing physical blindness.