In the case of Diocese of Georgia v. Christ Church Savannah the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia today granted the Motion for Summary Judgment of The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Georgia on our property claims against a breakaway parish and awarded the diocese possession of the parish property.
Thirty-three years after the Episcopal Church approved the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate, the first woman will be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.
“I go to this celebration of the signing of the Matthew Shepard/James Byrd, Jr. Act remembering Matthew and all those hurt by hate. I am hopeful this legislation will move us as a country to a place of reconciliation, peace and love toward one another.” ~Bruce Caldwell, Bishop of Wyoming
From the misfit fringe of another denomination, Rome recruits the naysayers it needs to bolster what has become its own place on the margin of Catholic life. First there was Opus Dei, with its crypto-fascist origins, then there were the Holocaust-denying lovers of Latin – and now the Anglo-fundies. Come on over, guys!
The impact of the recession on churches in a variety of denominations is reported in a new Alban Institute.
…even as hierarchies struggle to maintain rigidities in place, even as persons are hurt and their ministries denied, something else is going on, namely the emergence of the hidden wisdom of God’s people, a choreography of promise, a recognition which the official Church will surely have to take seriously.
Junge pledged to work to strengthen relationships between the members of the LWF,… “We have said all the time that to be a communion of churches is to be in a special relationship,” said the LWF general secretary elect, comparing the federation to an orchestra. “It is up to us to find the tune, the melody,” where “different sections join in a polyphony”, said Junge.
When someone asked about the face of Christ, Oliver’s eyes welled with tears and he turned away, unable to speak for a time. Moments later, he explained that the face of Christ was painted after his son, Khristian. What he did not say was that his son was on death row for the 1998 murder. Kristian’s execution has been set for November 5.
The peaceful host sings a melody with the loudest of sounds
clearly about the holy high seat of God,
blissfully bless the best of rulers,
the blessed with the angels sounding in unison thus: