Facing the financial crisis, the CFO of the Episcopal Church, N. Kurt Barnes, talks about layoffs, reducing expenses and development.
1. Anglo-Catholic Bishop of Fulham hoisted on own petard. Provincial autonomy is a marriage of convenience; intra-provincial autonomy for those opposed to the ordination of
Yesterday The Lead posted on media reports of a confusing Church of Uganda press release on the Anti Homosexuality Bill. Below is the press release.
The Ash Wednesday order ends with a long Litany expressing penitence and then asks the presider to read a statement which is not an absolution. It says the clergy are empowered to pronounce absolution – but doesn’t do it. Instead it offers a prayer for true repentance and renewal of life which is certainly appropriate, but wouldn’t Ash Wednesday be a good time for a real absolution?
In prayer, we have first to experience the dissatisfaction of our own desire, confess our own lack, and recognize in faith the absent presence of God. This should lead us to desire the desire of God himself, that is, to desire what God desires and to let God desire in us. At this point, prayer appears as the mystery of God in us and an event of the Spirit,
On Friday in the Bel Air section of Port au Prince, an area of town that was poor before the earthquake, the Ste. Trinite´ Music
However, on the whole, restraint is still in general posed as restraint from action rather than restraint from reaction. It becomes a form of, “Please don’t do what the rest of us, or most of the rest of us, don’t like; or even, in the long run, what a few of us cannot bear.” ~Tobias Haller
UPDATED -see below UPDATED -again The Church of Uganda had ended its silence on the anti-homosexual legislation according to Christianity Today:
Six persons, including one woman, have been nominated for Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries according to Episcopal Life Online:
If one party accepts restraint, it must be in the hope that they and the rest of the fellowship are then prepared to engage and to look critically at their own assumptions as well as those of the others. For Christians, the ‘balance of liberties’ is not static.