Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will join the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and other world religious leaders in an “Interfaith Summit on Happiness: Understanding and Promoting Happiness in Today’s Society,” at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta this coming Sunday and Monday.
The Diocese of South Carolina reconvened their convention today and passed canonical changes and constitutional changes (in their first reading) that attempt to separate the Diocese from the Episcopal Church without actually leaving.
Texas religious leaders representing several denominations led a conference of 400 persons on immigration reform and released a document called “Principles of Humane Immigration Reform.”
A group of Sudanese ecumenical leaders met with the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss the upcoming vote for the independence of Southern Sudan.
The letter writing in Pennsylvania continues. This week, the witnesses at the trial of Bishop Bennison of Pennsylvania respond to the news that he claims they knowingly perjured themselves.
Bishop Lawrence’s thinking is problematic. An Episcopal diocese is no more independent of the Episcopal Church than a state is independent of the federal government. This is nothing short of an attempt to craft ecclesiastical nullification. And of late, we have had too much practice in that with four other dioceses claiming nullification on the road to secession.
I would advise those who give themselves to prayer, particularly at first, to form friendships; and converse familiarly, with others who are doing the same thing. It is a matter of the last importance, even if it lead only to helping one another by prayer: how much more, seeing that it has led to much greater gain!