Day: November 13, 2010

Hauerwas on being a Christian college student

Stanley Hauerwas has some advice for young college students, in particular ones that are interested in combining their Christian faith with their planned vocations. He’s written an open letter to students and given wide ranging advice, some of it as a professor, some of it as a theologian, and all of it within the context of a person who takes faith seriously speaking to another who hopes to.

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Saturday Collection 11/13/2010

Episcopal congregations have been busy this week and there are a few interesting stories in particular to highlight: A new interdenominational thrift store with “treats”, a cathedral recreating green-space in the downtown and a parish that now has its own eponymous brew.

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Bishop Sisk calls for co-adjutor in NY, Bishop Roscam to retire

The Diocese of New York is just finishing up its 234th Diocesan Convention. Bishop Sisk has called for the election of a bishop co-adjutor in the Fall of 2011 in preparation for his retirement (the date of which was not specified). Bishop Roskam announced that she will be retiring as of the beginning of 2012.

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Sudan is the church’s focus as vote on partition draws near

As part of the 2005 Peace agreement signed by Sudanese in the northern and southern parts of country, a binding vote on partition will be taken in early January that could split the country into two parts, its Muslim dominated north and its Christian dominated south. Many observers expect violence to breakout again no matter which way the vote goes.

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Useful clergy

Seabury was a hard-working bishop, in marked contrast to some others of his day in England and America. He was also a straightforward man, who could observe with regard to confirmation that “it is unreasonable to expect that people should comply with a rite before they are convinced of their obligation to do so.”

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