Day: April 5, 2011

Okoh: CANA “clergymen quite unruly”

CANA is going on well, within the obvious limits of funds, facilities and manpower. At the appropriate time issues of additional manpower and the whole range of issues about finance vis-à-vis the desire for additional grouping (emerging “dioceses”) will be discussed. We repeat our appeal to our Lord Bishops to apply restraint in granting preferment to clergy abroad, especially in the USA as it has really made the clergymen there quite unruly. We also repeat the appeal for Bishops to respect CANA as a jurisdiction.

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C of E says, have your wedding your way

Maybe it’s a glossy attempt to draw people in with the subtle hope that people will be so enchanted with the church and the compliant vicars that they’ll stick around and get acquainted with Christianity.

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Chicago Consultation releases analysis of proposed Covenant

“The proposed covenant is a complex document that could have a major impact on the Episcopal Church and its many vital and longstanding relationships within the wider Anglican Communion,” the Rev. Lowell Grisham said. “We are grateful that well-respected theologians, clergy and lay leaders were willing to analyze it for us.”

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Supreme Court narrows standing for Establishment Clause cases

“Or assume,” she wrote for the minority, “a state wishes to subsidize the ownership of crucifixes” in one of three ways. It could purchase them in bulk and distribute them; it could reimburse buyers with a check; or it could pay with a tax credit. “Now, really — do taxpayers have less reason to complain if the state selects the last of these three options?” Justice Kagan asked

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Fort Worth loyalists file new pleadings

Jude Funding claims a security interest in real property held by the Diocesan Corporation, a two-acre tract in Tarrant County (the Diocesan Center on Alameda Street) and a six-acre tract in Hood County (part of Camp Crucis). The purported liens relate to an alleged note, dated October 13, 2010, from the Diocesan Corporation to Jude Funding in the amount of $3,500,000.

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A Church of Norway two-fer

The Church of Norway has established the office of Presiding Bishop, and the first person to hold that position is a woman. She is Bishop Helga Haugland Byfuglien.

Her appointment means that for the first time, the Porvoo Communion will have a primate who is a woman. Meanwhile another member of the Porvoo Communion, the Church of England, has not decided whether women may be bishops.

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Having a voice

Most missionary accounts of Christian conversions among natives are written as celebrations of achievement—that is, the acquisition of one more soul for the proselytizing enterprise. Pandita Ramabai’s story was an exception to the principle of missionary biographies,

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