A Peter Selby review
October 14, 2009
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Bishop Peter Selby’s rejection of the Anglican Covenant has struck a very resonant chord. Thinking Anglicans has a roundup of reactions.
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Day: October 14, 2009
As court-mandated date for taking over the church approached grounds fell into disarray
October 14, 2009
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A day after it gained control of St. Luke’s of the Mountains Church, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles Tuesday in initiated a major property makeover.
Virginia Supreme Court takes appeal
October 14, 2009
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The Court notified diocesan attorneys this morning that it has granted the petition for appeal of the Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church on all assignments of error. This means that the Court agreed to review every issue raised for appeal by the Diocese and the Episcopal Church without oral argument.
C of E dabbles in the market
October 14, 2009
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Here’s two items from the Wall Street Journal on the Church of England’s play in the Manhattan apartment market and its defense of hedge funds.
Fighting poverty with faith
October 14, 2009
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National faith-based organizations are committed to participating in an interfaith week of action, October 14th-21st, 2009 in order to urge our elected officials to make poverty-reduction a key goal of the transition to a new green economy. The organizations include Catholic Charities USA, The Episcopal Church, the ELCA, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
Found in translation
October 14, 2009
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Call me a nerd if you like, but this past August, my end-of-summer treat to myself was to sit in on the three week intensive course in New Testament Greek that the seminary offers to incoming students. People who know me and my love of language and languages predicted “You’ll get hooked.” And they were right.
Translator and bishop
October 14, 2009
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Born a Lithuanian Jew, Shereschewsky studied to become a rabbi. While pursuing graduate work in Germany, however, he became interested in Christianity through missionaries of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, a voluntary ecumenical group. In 1854 he emigrated to the United States,
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