What stories from 2009 concerning The Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion should readers look back on? We asked each of the newshounds at The Lead:
The Queen once said she had an “annus horribilis.” So what would the ABC call the “noughties?” “La Década Perdida?”
A name is a holy place. The name is a womb that nourishes the one who bears it with all the love and hope mingled in the giving of the name. If not dictated by some angel, names are chosen carefully for saints or statesmen, prophets or poets, family doctors or relatives or places with wonderful sounds. Names are chosen with love in gratitude or by faith in potential or for hope of intercession. Names carry meanings within them, every year of life drawing out the meaning of the life of the named. . . .