Friday’s Church Times has a recap of the African All Bishops conference by Pat Ashworth and, at the same link a sidebar essay by an
Freakonomics reports on research that if you are told to wash your hands you’ll be more judgmental:
Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies has made public her letter to the Bennison trial witnesses. Her letter:
Bishop Gene Robinson figures that as homosexuality becomes more of a non issue it’s no surprise that the political element known as the Religious Right
The Episcopal diocese, headquartered in Modesto under Bishop Jerry Lamb, filed a lawsuit in 2008 against the the Schofield group. The additional lawsuits, filed this year, were necessary to claim the property of self-incorporated parishes. Monday’s action completes those lawsuits.
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Whether on the battle front, or in desolate displacement camps, believers experience the numinous, healing, recreating presence of God. God is unreservedly the God of salvation revealed in the One who has passed through death and now abides among his people. The diversity of this Church is both its strength and its weakness, its hidden wealth, and its fragmentation.
The legacy of prior generations’ sins – slavery and segregation – too often manifest itself as socio-economic discrimination, thus perpetuating racial prejudices and exacerbating greed. Children born to poor and lower income parents generally have fewer and lower quality educational opportunities than do children born to affluent parents.