Day: November 25, 2009

More on American ties to Uganda

The meeting will take place in the [Uganda] Parliament Conference Hall tomorrow Thursday, 5th March starting at 7.30 a.m. to 9.00 a.m. Guest speakers include Dr Scot Libley [Scott Lively] of the United States, Caleb Lee [Caleb Lee Brundidge] of the United States and Mr Stephen Langa of the Family Life Network. All Members are invited to attend and breakfast will be served.

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Ugandan Anglican bishop pushes anti-gay bill

Ugandan Parliament, the watch dog of our laws, please go ahead and put the anti- Gay laws in place. It is then that we become truly accountable to our young and to this country, not to Canada or England. We are in charge! We have our entrenched birthrights, Ugandans should not accept to sell or mortgage these God given birthrights. – Bishop Joseph Abura

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Executive Council reinventing itself

“New ways of communication, new lines of trustworthy or trust building linkages will develop, new sources of power and authority. The Executive Council is no longer understood by its members as being modeled as a corporate board. The message of inclusion, on a board level, has begun to effect the workings of Executive Council itself.” – Mark Harris, member of Executive Council

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The Family’s role in the Ugandan anti-gay bill

You follow that U.S. money. You look at their archives. So that’s how working with some research colleagues we discovered that David Bahati, the MP behind this legislation, is really deeply involved in The Family’s work in Uganda, that the ethics minister of Uganda, President Museveni’s kind of right hand man, is also helping to organize The Family’s Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast.

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Happy Thanksgiving from Episcopal Cafe

Perhaps the desire to extend gratitude beyond the human is an evolutionary glitch–a useful social trait that got too big for its britches. Perhaps. Or perhaps we awaken one day and realize that we are not now, and have never been, masters of our own destinies; that our successes were not entirely of our own making; that our souls magnify the Lord, whether we like it or not.

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On the side of the poor

Huntington, an Anglo-Catholic, was as theologically conservative as he was socially liberal. He taught that the sacramental life was the motivating force behind the reconciliation of all races and classes. He also embraced monasticism in large part because of his commitment to the world beyond the monastery walls.

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