After four years at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, dean and president Gary Hall has resigned to take pulpit duties at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills,
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid will come into chairmanship of the Parliament following its fourth meeting in Melbourne next month.
The diocese has never before seen a woman take orders for the presbyterate; neither has it seen a female rector. All that changed today.
The bishop – soon to retire – told his synod that “no priest or group of laity has the right to take church property with them when they change denominations.”
The eschatologist known for making theologians cringe (and church library shelves groan) is penning a new series, The End.
Bishop Doyle’s presence in the social media sphere provides a conduit for those making intercession.
A well-planned rule of life can become the life-killing law that Paul warned about, a method of measuring our spiritual inadequacy when we fail to keep it perfectly (or worse, a source of smugness when we do). Sometimes we are not ready for change; we instead to stew awhile longer in our unhappiness in order to learn a lesson at a deeper level. Sometimes we can’t see what is best for ourselves, and so any plan we might come up with is worthless.
Friday 5. The rain is over; the clouds scattered and gone; and nature smileth again. I only mourn the oppression I cannot remove. . . .