The Court notified diocesan attorneys this morning that it has granted the petition for appeal of the Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church on all assignments of error. This means that the Court agreed to review every issue raised for appeal by the Diocese and the Episcopal Church without oral argument.
Here’s two items from the Wall Street Journal on the Church of England’s play in the Manhattan apartment market and its defense of hedge funds.
National faith-based organizations are committed to participating in an interfaith week of action, October 14th-21st, 2009 in order to urge our elected officials to make poverty-reduction a key goal of the transition to a new green economy. The organizations include Catholic Charities USA, The Episcopal Church, the ELCA, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
Call me a nerd if you like, but this past August, my end-of-summer treat to myself was to sit in on the three week intensive course in New Testament Greek that the seminary offers to incoming students. People who know me and my love of language and languages predicted “You’ll get hooked.” And they were right.
Born a Lithuanian Jew, Shereschewsky studied to become a rabbi. While pursuing graduate work in Germany, however, he became interested in Christianity through missionaries of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, a voluntary ecumenical group. In 1854 he emigrated to the United States,
Members of the Pierce family – including actor David Hyde Pierce – dedicated a newly refurbished organ at Bethesda Episcopal Church in Saratoga Springs, New York, this past weekend.
During a 15-hour stay in the emergency department at UCSF it was determined that a blood clot had broken away from veins in my lower left calf and made its way into my lungs – I had an extensive pulmonary embolism, with one large clot in the pulmonary artery, and smaller ones branching out through the lungs.
One juror had read aloud from the Bible to a group of fellow jurors, including the passage, “And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”
Could you live with some of the suspect ecclesiological assertions in the covenant if signing on meant that the Communion Partner Bishops and Rectors, the Duncanites, the Minnsians, the Jensenites, et al. could no longer claim that the Episcopal Church’s membership in the Anglican Communion was in jeopardy?