At the Crown Nominations Commission’s last meeting, where Dr John was put on the initial shortlist of candidates for the Southwark job, neither archbishop blocked his name. Liberals make up a majority of the commission and he is considered by many to be the outstanding candidate after a successful period in charge of St Albans cathedral.
The Anglican Archbishop of Southern Africa, the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, addressed the conflict in the Middle East at a United Nations meeting this week:
Many US churches are reflecting on the the relationship of church and state and celebrating freedom of worship on this weekend where Independence Day falls
The Metro DC chapter of Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays awarded Virginia Theological Seminary with its Faith in Action Award for its twenty-year commitment to the inclusion of homosexual students, faculty, and staff. The award is given to those members of a particular faith or place of worship that have shown commitment and affirmation to the LGBT community.
The changes which have been taking place in our ideas about God have been mainly in the direction of a purified ethical conception of his character. We have been learning to believe, more and more, in the justice, the righteousness, the goodness of God. In the oldest times men thought him cruel and revengeful; then they began to regard him as willful and arbitrary—his justice was his determination to have his own way; his sovereignty was his egoistic purpose to do everything for his own glory.
… as an Episcopalian who loves the Anglican Communion, I am proud that the Episcopal Church may be the last best hope in Catholic Christianity for the dispossessed, the different and those who are loathed simply for being who they are.