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Day: February 16, 2011

Episcopal Church’s Executive Council considers how the church must change

February 16, 2011 9 Comments

Bonnie Anderson used part of her opening comments to say that “our society is changing both demographically and economically, the size and resource base of our Church is changing and the world is changing through climate change, population change, technology and a host of other factors.” The church, she said, must respond in ways that are “rooted in our core values as Episcopalians and that includes the gifts of all the people of God in our church.”

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Developing seminary education in China

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Kwok Pui-lan, professor of Christian theology and spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts: “They want to develop a more advanced program inside China because the need is so great,” . . . “They want to raise up pastors and faculty with more advanced knowledge.”

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Sewanee reduces tuition by 10%

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In a move to address the spiraling costs of higher education, the university’s Board of Regents has approved a 10 percent reduction in tuition and fees at the College for the coming academic year.

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Boomers go to seminary

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A growing number of baby boomers are entering seminaries to take their last shot at fulfilling a lifelong dream, a recent article suggests.

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Comfort for the wounded

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Though the bolts are not drawn across the door; though your windows are not barred, yet what bolts or bars could hold you faster than your sickness. Your house is your prison, or your room in the hospital is a cell in the prison; and you yourself are a prisoner of God. Now, in order to profit by your imprisonment, consider first this one great truth, which is revealed to your senses in this your sickness.

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