The Church of England has been experiencing a rash of property crimes against some of its most expensive assets – its oldest buildings. Thieves have been nicking off with the lead from the roofs of parish churches, abbeys and cathedrals across the country.
There’s been a rise in parish-based nursing programs in recent years. And many church groups are even starting up regular health clinics for indigent and other under-served groups in their community. What effect will health care reform have on these efforts?
Rome has posted the text of its new English language liturgy online as a way of helping people to prepare for the transition.
The present controversy in the Episcopal Church has caused division in the Diocese of Colorado in ways that mirror the effects it’s had on the national stage. Now that a number of congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado have declared their “independence”, they are finding that the next steps are not as obvious as they thought.
The dancers carried her on a bier-like platform on their shoulders, a comical, but credible and somewhat eerie, life-sized bit of straw and black taffeta sculpture. Was she flying around the crowd or were we seeing a memory of how someone would be carried to the execution? I put the question aside.
About the time when the Emperor Trajan received the government of the Romans, after Simon the son of Clopas, who was bishop of Jerusalem, had suffered martyrdom in the eighth year of his reign, being the second bishop of the church there after James who bore the name of brother of the Lord, Philip the apostle, going through the cities and regions of Lydia and Asia, preached to all the Gospel of Christ.