Over the weekend Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, led by former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold joined in a shared Solemn Evensong dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God.
Tough times call for old fashioned solutions. When Grace Shelter in Northhampton New Hampshire, a program for women and their families working to overcome addiction,
Bishop Mike Klusmeyer is planning for his next drop from the roadbed of the famous New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia to the riverbank 700 feet below. In a nod to maintaining a living witness to the Gospel, the Bishop will be using a zip line to accomplish the trip.
If Resolution 4 passes this November at the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s annual Convention, the Diocese will reopen a study process that considers the advantages of
Has the recent court decision in South Carolina which effectively invalidates the Dennis Canon’s effect opened a much larger can of worms?
Some bloggers have been getting by the past few days on the validity of the Dennis canon and the true definition of disaffiliation. But the brouhaha this past week in Ft. Worth – for whatever else it brought us – did offer one nugget not to be missed.
Abandoning the trajectory that I believe leads toward God leads away from life abundant. The Church must equally honor and include all people, regardless of sexual orientation, not because doing so will change the world, alter our prestige or privilege within the Anglican Communion, respect human rights, or for any reason other than the theological wisdom that God has given to us demands genuine inclusivity.
If we come to the gospels expecting to find biography in the modern sense, we shall look in vain. There was little real interest in scientific biography in the ancient world—Plutarch is an exception—and Matthew provides us with no biographical material between the infancy and the beginning of the Baptist’s ministry.