Unless Governor Rick Perry changes his mind and either issues a stay or commutes the sentence, 32-year-old Khristian Oliver, will be executed by the State
The Porvoo churches may be in full communion, but they are suffering something approaching a full communications breakdown. Or so it would seem.
The Church of Uganda has said that they are studying the proposed legislation before their country’s legislature and therefore will take no position on it right now.
Pat Ashworth summarizes the response of Anglican groups and others to the proposed anti-gay legislation now being proposed in Uganda, noting that in 2007 the
The job of ordained ministry in congregations is big, complex and hard to nail down. The Rev. Elizabeth Keaton has been thinking about this and, after a year of conversation with colleagues, has drafted a preliminary proposal.
Once our children have taken the bits they want and we have sent them those boxes we have been storing for them since they left home after college, no one will want the items that hold the most meaning for me. At the garage sale, they sit unwanted even in the free pile. This is the time for a kind friend or compassionate daughter to step in to help with the separation. I close my eyes and don’t want to know what is in the dumpster or on its way to the landfill.
O God of love, we ask you to give us love:
love in our thinking, love in our speaking, love in our doing,
and love in the hidden places of our souls;
love of our neighbours, near and far;
love of our friends, old and new;
“We view with alarm the dangerous consequences of disregard for the survival of God’s creation”
The Church of England has published a book of prayers and reflections to help frazzled commuters prepare for the winter ahead — and then unwind on the way home.
“What does it say if you’re unwilling to say that the state shouldn’t execute homosexuals?”