Commending the President’s leadership and applauding his vision for a Middle East Peace Plan, the religious leaders note agreement and support for six principals, including “Israel’s right to exist in security and the right of the Palestinian people to a viable, sovereign and secure state of their own.”
“I never dreamed we’d have something like this,” said Bashar al Salah, the team’s captain. “Now we’re a real baseball team.”
For this deacon, the time has come to take stock, not only of those questions, but serious questions about our institutional structures. In the last few years, my experience on a national level, has pushed me to ask, “What in God’s name are we doing?” And, “What do we do when the church gets in the way?”
After taping the Letterman show, the president returned to his midtown Manhattan hotel and quietly emerged a while later in gym clothes and a baseball cap. His destination: the church across the street for some basketball with his aides.
One simplistic definition is that catholic Anglicans hold the doctrine of the Undivided Church (those things that the Orthodox East and the Catholic West agree about) but hold different discipline. That is, our faith is the same but our principles of church order are different. But defining what is doctrine and what is discipline, and deciding who gets to be the final arbiter is what’s been giving us fits since the ‘60s.
In the year of our Lord 1793-94, while [Philander Chase] was a member of the sophomore and junior classes, he became acquainted with the Common Prayer-Book of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America. This circumstance formed an important era in his life and that of his venerable parents and beloved relatives in Cornish, New Hampshire, and in Bethel, Vermont,