Dog admitted to CofE Guild of Vergers
I had just witnessed the first dog being admitted to the Church of England Guild of Vergers. This was history in the making.
I had just witnessed the first dog being admitted to the Church of England Guild of Vergers. This was history in the making.
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The ghost bike memorializing the 2007 death of Portland art student Tracey Sparling will become part of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Parish’s bicycle shrine, giving it a permanent home away from the often-crowded downtown sidewalk outside the Crystal Ballroom.
The last case of the morning was the Episcopal case. But first an intermission. Upon returning to their seats several found their seats had been taken even though they had attempted to claim ownership by leaving behind a possession. You move you lose was the rule de facto, and all quietly accepted the result.
Hope reigns, and celebration was much in evidence among the residents and dozens of visiting North Americans who have served through Cristosal to accompany the work of change unfolding in this and other vulnerable communities. “Today we honor the witness of people who have come to serve without expecting anything in return,” +Martín Barahona
Implicating me in this chicanery is doubly damaging to my professional reputation and career by holding me accountable for misstatements and by associating me with a cause that most ethical Pediatricians will recognize as misguided and hurtful to an entire class of children and families.
I also support Archbishop Henry’s call for a Primates meeting. I also will only attend this meeting on condition that we as Primates be consulted first before the agenda is finalised, and on condition that the Primates of TEC and the ACC are not present.
…doubt is a wonderful thing, and it’s what people fear most and what people castigate themselves about most. Doubt is that moment in the faith life when we put down everybody else’s answers and begin to find our own. We look at everything we’ve been told is holy, is true, and we test it. ~~Chittister
Although scientific data remains inconclusive in the estimation of the traditionalists (p. 25), the weight of accumulating data points increasingly toward proving the assessment of heterosexual relationships and reproduction as normative wrong. Nature exhibits incredible diversity and contending that any one pattern of sexual behavior is normative has become very problematic.
I am not going to do anything so foolish as to try to tell over again, less vividly, this well-known story. We all remember its outlines, I suppose: the absence of Thomas from Christ’s first meeting with the assembled disciples on Easter evening; the dogged disbelief with which he met their testimony;