The Huffington Post reports on the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and Bishop Jon Bruno helping an adoption agency when the Roman Catholic Church withdrew funding when the agency allowed same sex couples to adopt.
An update from the Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe, bishop of NW Pennsylvania (via email):
Humanitarian agencies are seeing promising signs of regaining space and acceptance from Taliban insurgents while attacks against NGO workers have reduced significantly over the past six months.
…let us not breed unnecessary suspicion against one another but instead seek for the common goal of a peaceful and just society. Remember a peaceful society is the right of every one regardless of their age, race, gender or religious inclination. ++Orombi
Roundup of the news following the General Synod decision on women in the episcopacy and a timeline of what happens next.
With spilled oil now reaching all the Gulf States, the White House this week demanded more answers from BP. Meanwhile, a prominent ethicist is calling for a much deeper national discussion about the moral implications of the spill.
Keeping a “true Corrispondence” between Indians and colonists in colonial Pennsylvania required skilled negotiators, and on the colonial side of the fence, there was no one better than Conrad Weiser.