The Archive
Year: 2010
EDS has a good year
News from Episcopal Divinity School that describes the work they’ve done to turn back debt and increase fundraising.
Prosecutors seek restitution from Armstrong
The legal troubles for a former Episcopal priest who pleaded no contest to a charge of embezzling $400,000 from his parish are not over. The local DA is seeking restitution for the costs of prosecution.
As one Episcopal newspaper ends, another begins
As the last issue of Episcopal News Monthly goes to press, a new, independent paper prepares to fill the gap.
Blogging Bishop Baines appointed to Bradford
The Right Reverend Nicholas Baines, Area Bishop of Croydon, has been appointed the next Bishop of Bradford. Baines keeps the blog Northern Lights, and is a regular writer, broadcaster and tweeter.
True wisdom
O Sapientia
O Wisdom, Which camest forth out of the mouth of the Most High,
and reachest from one end to the other,
mightily and sweetly ordering all things;
Come and teach us the way of prudence.
Call for Ten Commandments makeover
According to one rabbinic tradition, as soon as he saw the calf, Moses realized the Israelites were too busy looking for symbols instead of wisdom—such that the Two Tablets had become an idol, too. The most important thing about the Ten Commandments, the story seems to teach, is to forget what they look like and listen carefully to what they say.
The true meaning of Christmas
“It is deeply offensive to me and millions of working Americans across this country for any Senator to suggest that working through the Christmas holiday is somehow ‘sacrilegious’ or ‘disrespectful.’”
Bishop of Phoenix threatens Catholic status of hospital
The Catholic Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, is threatening to remove the Catholic affiliation of Phoenix’s St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center this Friday in a dispute over the hospital’s actions to save the life of a pregnant woman earlier this year. St. Joseph’s on its website stated they “We believe that all life is sacred. In this case we saved the only life we could save, which was the mother’s.”
Where are the Christian Christmas cards?
In a newspaper investigation of over 5,000 Christmas cards at leading supermarkets in England and Wales, only 45 had a religious theme. The Daily Mail’s investigation labelled Morrisons the worst offender. Out of 973 cards surveyed at the chain, only six had a religious theme.