Day: November 2, 2009

A better way to discern in community

Lately civic and religious discourse in America has taken on a certain road-rage quality according to Katherine Marshall. Recently she was able to observe an ethics consult at the Chicago Medical School. She came away believing that perhaps there is a more excellent way for us to engage one another

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Bishop Scarfe on the new Vatican plan

Bishop Alan Scarfe points out something not many others have seen in the latest initiative to include Anglican communities into a full communion relationship with the Holy See. There’s not much future in community defined as being opposed to other communities.

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The challenge Uganda is presenting to the Communion

The silence on the part of the leadership of the Anglican Communion regarding the proposed “Anti-Homosexual” legislation in Uganda is scandalous according to Colin Coward of “Changing Attitudes”. He calls for a swift and strong response.

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Why is it so sad?

What I had seen as elegant and understated, they saw as effectively communicating a message of restrained grief; not the exuberant celebration of joyful transformed lives that Dia de los Muertos proclaims. So, with my “permission” the ladies set to making it a proper altar.

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Bishop Vaché has died

The Rt. Rev. C. Charles Vaché, the 7th Bishop of Southern Virginia, died at 2:30 a.m. on the Feast of All Saints in hospice care at Westminster Canterbury in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Leaving Church House, but not the Café

On December 11, I will be leaving my position as canon for communications and advancement for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington to form Canticle Communications, a strategic communications partnership that will work primarily with church clients. My partner is Rebecca Wilson, whose work Café readers may remember from this summer’ s General Convention.

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