Work has moved from rescue to recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand and the surrounding communities after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit the region on February 22nd.
Steve Farley, a member of the state legislature in Arizona and an Episcopalian, talks about the importance of conversation especially in a political environment where religion is used to divide people and stir up anger.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life counted up news stories in the US again in 2010 and found that that there were slightly more stories concerned religion in the secular media than in 2009.
On Friday, Fourth Judicial District Judge Gregory R. Werner sentenced ACNA priest the Rev. Donald Armstrong to four years probation and to pay $99,247 restitution for his Alford plea to one count of misdemeanor theft of funds from the Colorado Springs church where he once served as rector.
Israel’s Interior Ministry has revoked the permit for the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, to live in Jerusalem, and has refused requests to reinstate it, in spite of protests by Anglican authorities in the West specifically the United States.
“My greatest desire,” Emily Morgan once wrote, “has always been to make tired people rested and happy.” Generosity was one of her outstanding traits. Wherever she traveled, she purchased gifts for friends, relatives, and acquaintances, choosing articles specifically for certain people and so sharing her pleasure in travel with those at home. Her favorite form of giving, however, was in hospitality.