Bishop Roger Foys, who agreed to the settlement fund, won lofty praise from the couple. “He was very compassionate and I think he did good,” she said. Retired E.W. Scripps Company chairman Bill Burleigh, who served as co-special master overseeing victims’ claims, also holds the bishop in high regard. “He’s a hero who will never get the kind of credit he deserves.”
These talking points from the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs have been in the works for a few weeks. They are the latest in
A McDonald’s ad featuring a gay teenager, running on French television, has generated a few spates in this country. What do you make of it?
Last Thursday I sent letters to members of the Inter Anglican ecumenical dialogues who are from the Episcopal Church informing them that their membership of these dialogues has been discontinued.
We have to be very careful; the clean break that could be easy for us to contemplate might well betray our GLBT comrades in the Global South. We should take our stand explicitly with them, come what may–and that may mean enduring humiliations from Williams et al. We should not care; taking a stand with them would be worth it.
The Diocese of Washington dedicated the new home of the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys last night. Emily Miller of the Georgetown Dish has the story, and some very cute pictures:
This Mission was begun in 1889 by two young American priests, sent out by the American Church Missionary Society (since merged in the “Board of Missions”). They buried themselves in the interior of Southern Brazil and set themselves to acquire a thorough mastery of the language, and of the modes of thought and life of the people.
Is the performance of one’s pastoral duties impacted by disbelief? How?
Throw a little light on the first follower of any old idea, and you could soon have a full-blown movement.