Bennison: Don’t worry, I’m innocent
September 23, 2010
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Bishop Bennison says in spite of a resolution from the House of Bishops calling for his resignation, he won’t resign:
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Year: 2010
Armstrong’s parish website
removes statement
September 23, 2010
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It’s an incremental development, but the statement defending CANA/ACNA priest Don Armstrong issued on his parish’s website has been taken down without announcement. This followed
The laying on of hands
September 23, 2010
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A friendly touch buffers the physiological consequences of stress.
Troubles on the Tenth Parallel: Muslim-Christian Conflict
September 23, 2010
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No question facing the Anglican Communion today is more explosive that the present and future of Muslim Christian relations. Eliza Griswold’s new book, The Tenth Parallel, Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is a must read for anyone seriously wishing to explore this subject.
Metanoia
September 23, 2010
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The human journey rightly understood is a movement of metanoia. Repentance, the usual translation of the Greek word, is an unsatisfactory one, because it too much suggests self-blame and the acknowledgement of sin, instead of hope which is its essential characteristic.
Recognizing the divine in the other
September 22, 2010
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“We don’t want to mess with others who are different. That’s hard work. It takes a lot to hear somebody else’s story. We don’t want to do the hard work. We don’t want our lives to change. “But imagine if we became known as the people who are able to greet the other and say, ‘Namaste, the God in me greets the God in you.'”
Truth and clarity about Armstrong’s plea agreement
September 22, 2010
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In light of the substantial misinformation from Donald Armstrong about the plea bargain which he agreed to in open court last week, let me share with you our understanding of the plea agreement, a copy of which is attached in full so that you may read it for yourselves. – Lawrence R. Hitt II, Chancellor of Colorado
Gaps between rich and poor
September 22, 2010
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The gap that could squander our democracy isn’t the gap between liberal and conservative, or labor and management, or progressive and fundamentalist, or Christianity and Islam. It is the gap that troubled Jesus: the gap between a rich man who lived fabulously and a poor man.
Early AA document displays debate over religion
September 22, 2010
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The group’s decision to use “higher power” and “God of your understanding” instead of “God” or “Jesus Christ” and to adopt a more inclusive tone was enormously important in making the deeply spiritual text accessible to the non-religious and non-Christian, AA historians and treatment experts say.
Living as the the holy people of God
September 22, 2010
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Each individual’s, family’s, congregation’s and diocese’s giving takes on immeasurable significance in these tough times, calling us anew to unimagined opportunities to live as the holy people of God. ~ Bonnie Anderson
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