On Friday, January 21, 2011, the Hon. John P. Chupp of the 141st District Court, Tarrant County, Texas, granted the Local Episcopal Parties’ and The Episcopal Church’s Motions for Summary Judgments. He denied the Southern Cone parties Motion for a Partial Summary Judgment.
Julie Ingersoll of Religion Dispatches looks at a recent interview in Christianity Today of Roberta Green Ahmanson, wife of Howard. Ingersoll says that most reporters do not understand the importance of the theology behind Ahmanson’s support of religious right causes.
A new poll says that three out of four Americans grade the country’s moral climate at a “C” or below. If that is true, then we are grading on a curve.
The Presiding Bishop wrote to President Obama on January 16th urging him to revive stalled middle east peace process and to not veto an upcoming UN resolution on Israeli settlements in occupied territory.
The Global South Primates are blaming the Archbishop of Canterbury for their boycott of the Primates Meeting next week. They are claiming that the agenda is not transparent enough and that there won’t be enough useful dialogue to make it worthwhile to spend all that money to fly to Dublin.
S. Agnes, when about thirteen years of age, was demanded in marriage by the son of Symphronius, the Prefect of Rome. But she was a Christian and vowed to celibacy, and therefore refused his offers. She was seized and commanded to burn incense to the gods, but resisted with holy firmness.