Year: 2010

ABC writes to primates about meetings

Dr. Williams has called for a reform of the structure of the meetings, suggesting that an elected standing committee be created and the powers and responsibility of the meeting of the communion’s 38 archbishops, presiding bishops and moderators be delineated. – So reports George Conger.

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Soldier bishop

An ex-soldier like the Egyptian pioneer Pachomius, Martin abandoned his military career in Gaul (France) to live a life apart from the world. Around him, probably in the year 361, there gathered the West’s first known monastic community at what seems to have been an ancient local cultic site in a marshy valley, now called Ligugé.

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Bishop Gene Robinson on NPR

In the seven years since he became a bishop, Robinson added, he has had cause to remember that “life is a gift and we are meant to be good stewards of that gift.

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40 years of women deputies at GC

Lueta E. Bailey, a resident of Griffin, Georgia, will be honored by Dr. Bonnie Anderson . . . In 1970, Bailey was one of the first women allowed a seat and a vote at a General Convention.

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Fighting about fighting poverty

“Proponents of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) say it exemplifies Jesus’ preference for the poor and downtrodden; opponents, including several bishops, say it funds left-wing activists, some of whom undermine church doctrine on homosexuality and abortion.”

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Unpaving a parking lot

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, in Des Moines, began a renovation in October that will transform a parking area into a green space reminiscent of its original look.

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