In an economic climate where Christian education positions are being eliminated in many congregations, educators continue to join NAECED—now more than 350 dues-paying members— for the empowering mixture of fellowship, continuing education and resource-sharing.
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The primates’ meeting is relatively new – when I was a child, there was no such thing. That was a time when ordinary people’s views were valued in church and society. The 1968 Lambeth Conference recommended “that no major issue in the life of the church should be decided without the full participation of the laity in discussion and in decision”.
Coptic priests fear Egyptian youth will turn away from Church. Maryknoll Fr Douglas May, who worked in Egypt for 18 years of Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule, said he thought “the Christian leaders in Egypt played it safe”. Fr May, now stationed in Nairobi, said: “I’m afraid that the Church leadership has lost its credibility with the Christian youth over this.”
The Diocese of Pittsburgh announces settlements between the Diocese and congregations who have separated from the Episcopal Church. A variety of agreements have been used
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, will on Wednesday, begin a three-day pastoral visit to the United Kingdom during which he will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
“I sorely wish I could say that there has been great progress for women in the almost 40 years women have been ordained priests, but if the Called to Serve report shows us anything, it’s that we still have a long way to go,” said Cynthia Black, Chair of the Committee on the Status of Women, and a priest in the Diocese of Minnesota.
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When there’s language about God’s call in Scripture, we may want to resist our contemporary inclination to read everything individualistically and consider that in the context of the story, being called and chosen is usually about becoming part of ( or even leading) a new kind of human community, bearing the cost of this, and becoming in some way an example to the world on God’s behalf.
On the eighth day of March 1699, Dr. Thomas Bray, and four other excellent men, met at London, under the sanction of Bishop Compton, to consult upon the best method of promoting Christian knowledge; and formed a little society for that purpose. In a few years, their numbers increased so greatly, and the sphere of their operations became so widely extended, that it was found necessary to separate the institution into two distinct branches.