Mark Achtemeier is a Presbyterian pastor and a seminary professor. He’s also a man who has been open about how he has changed his mind on the question of the full inclusion of LGBT Christians into the church. He details the process that led to his re-thinking in an essay.
Forty or so people from all over the Anglican Communion recently met in Hong Kong to plan a coordinated response to the scandalous practice of human trafficking. The most common form involves forcing children and women into the sex trade, but its rising tide now includes forced labor and organ harvest.
The House bill regarding Health Care reform passed this weekend with some significant restrictions regarding doctors and clinics ability to provide abortions to those who choose them. According to reports, this was due to intense lobbying by the Catholic Bishops Conference.
Most of the news today is about the Vatican’s new program that invites disaffected Anglicans into a special relationship with the Roman based church. But there’s also a lovely story of a Synagogue in Kansas who decided to reach out to support an Episcopal parish in need.
The full details of the new Apostolic Constitution have been released. Most of it is what people have expected, but there are places such as when it describes the role of priest functioning as bishops in all but name that are surprising in how far they go.
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Our work for justice must flow naturally out of our being in love with those for whom there is no justice. Otherwise our activism is nothing more than a “sounding gong or a clanging cymbal.”