Archbishops and primates traveling
March 2, 2010
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Archbishop Makgoba will travel to Haiti today and Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori will travel to Scotland in June.
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Year: 2010
Certain and Martindale also nominated for Federal Ministries bishop post
March 2, 2010
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… two more nominees have been added to the list of nominees for Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries, the Very Rev. Richard James Martindale and the Rev. Dr. Robert Certain.
Catholic Charities ends benefits for spouses
March 2, 2010
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Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex partners of its workers — the latest fallout from a bitter debate between District officials trying to legalize same-sex marriage and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
Gay Presbyterian minister re-instated
March 2, 2010
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A gay clergyperson has been re-instated in the Presbyterian Church. The reinstatement was based on the person’s exercising a “scruples” clause (conscientious objection) to a
The Word became flesh, right here
March 2, 2010
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In a diocese like ours where we are aware of the struggles of the Palestinian people and we know what terrible contradictions roil under the old pious title ‘the Holy Land,’ there are extra motives for making the pilgrimage, with opportunities for expressing solidarity with the wronged and for gaining first hand knowledge as a basis for political action and witness.
Nearer to Christ
March 2, 2010
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Another side of this understanding of the burial of the saints is the respect of the Anglo-Saxons for the bones of the ‘new’ saints and the accounts of miracles at their tombs. The converts buried their dead to await the resurrection rather than burning them, and beside these bones the poor and sick were healed.
Removed, perhaps, during the laying on of hands?
March 1, 2010
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Pluralist wonders why liberal English bishops have no spine: I see nothing but imbalance when it comes to wider comment by Church of England leaders – so that the increasingly conservative like Williams and Wright are like road blockages and foghorns, and then you have the more extreme noises making hay, whereas there is no balance from the other side unless they are retired or nearly retired.
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