BBC Radio host Scott Mills was threatened with arrest while interviewing Ugandan MP David Bahati because Mills confessed that he is gay. Box Turtle Bulletin
On February 11, 1989, the Rt. Rev. Barbara Clementine Harris was the first woman to be ordained bishop in the Anglican Communion in Boston, Massachusetts.
News comes to us that Hosni Mubarak has resigned as President of Egypt. We lift of prayers of thanks to God for all the brave and persistent Egyptians who made this moment possible
Religion Dispatches profiles Bishop Christopher Senyonjo.
Last night the inaugural service celebrating full communion between the Episcopal Church and the Northern and Southern Provinces of the Moravian Church in North America was held at at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Children first begin to create a larger family at church and school. Just as nature gives us a pod of whales, school of fish, gaggle of geese, pride of lions and an exaltation of larks, we human beings need larger networks where we can feel accepted enough to try on different roles, no matter how strong our biological family.
How lovely on the mountain,
The feet of those who bring
Glad tidings of salvation,
Thro’ Zion’s glorious King;
A spokesman for the Anglican Communion Office told CEN “Canon Prof McIntosh is a canon residentiary of Durham and is licensed as a priest in the Church of England. So he is not prevented from being a member of Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.” (Even though he is American and authored “To Set Our Hope on Christ.”)
Eight Muslim youth in a car heading to a wedding were attacked on January 7 after they took a wrong turn and ended up in a Christian village in Barkin Ladi. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the following day the Nigerian army exhumed and returned to their families the corpses of five of them from shallow graves near the village. The three others remain missing. The following morning, January 8, Muslim youth in Jos indiscriminately attacked Christians.
The links today relate to The Episcopal Church or the Anglican Communion: Bishop Senyonjo writes ABC; Bishop Mark Sisk interviewed by Theo Hobson; Connecticut Supreme Court hears property dispute; Seabury Western and the Kellogg School partner.