A comparison of a study by the White House with a study by the Church Pension Fund reveals that the disparity in pay between male and female clergy in the Episcopal Church mirrors the rest of the United States.
Recovery teams in New Zealand reports that no bodies were found in the rubble of the tower of the ChristChurch Cathedral that was destroyed in last week’s earthquake.
An Episcopal Church in Paducah, KY that sponsors a Boy Scout troop has responded to a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a former adult leader, according to news reports.
Religious leaders are making their voices heard in state houses in Colorado, where 130 religious leaders and clergy in support a Senate bill that would permit same-sex civil unions, and in Tennessee, where Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders oppose a bill that would make following Shariah law a crime.
Bishop Lawrence C. Provenzano of Long Island has written about the current disputes between some state governments and their unions. He warns that religious rhetoricis being used to distract the people of God from the real issues of justice and the stewardship of our society’s resources..
The Living Church tells the story Cristy Kessler, her fight to beat a combination of auto-immune diseases and the fund set up by her partner, the Rev. Liz Zivanov.
Archdeacon Tuiniua Finau tells Radio New Zealand International about the surprising level of faith among ordinary New Zealanders.
NBC’s Today show reported on the restoration work that has begun at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port au Prince, Haiti. The murals depicting Haitians in traditional Biblical scenes were created in the 1940’s and are being restored with help from the Smithsonian Institution.
The Indians on Long Island, on the arrival of the white people, were found divided into distinct tribes, or perhaps more properly, collections of families, having different names, and exercising an independent authority or control over separate portions of territory; and these tribes had, moreover, each their chiefs and head men,