Not since the days of Cranmer and Laud has an Anglican archbishop suffered the ultimate penalty for his faith and Luwum has therefore a special place in the history of the whole Anglican communion. He has been remembered in a chapel dedicated to modern martyrs in Canterbury Cathedral
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.”
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.”
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.
Primates were elected as members of the Primates’ Standing Committee at the recent Primates’ Meeting in Dublin, Ireland and have agreed to serve.
A growing number of baby boomers are entering seminaries to take their last shot at fulfilling a lifelong dream, a recent article suggests.
The California Supreme Court will decide Wednesday whether to plunge back into the legal battle over same-sex marriage.
The church is one body; God has no borders. We will not abandon each other regardless of the political geographical boundaries.
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.
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.