The Archive
Year: 2014
After close vote, Presbyterians will divest from 3 companies with ties to occupation
Laurie Goodstein in The New York Times:
50 million people are displaced around the world
The UNHCR says that more 50 million people are displaced around the world, the highest proportion of the world’s population since World War II.
Episcopal diocese of Fort Worth petitions the Supreme Court
The Episcopal Church and loyal Episcopal parties and congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday.
The fading “defense of (traditional) marriage” movement
Many of the people who turned out for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) second annual “March For Marriage” rally yesterday in front of the U.S. Capitol rally cited religious reasons for their presence.
First female archbishop installed in Sweden
The new archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Antje Jackelén, was installed at the Cathedral in Uppsala last Sunday.
Forgiveness and authority
Church of the Holy Communion in University City, Missouri, tweets daily prayers and news of note @HolyCommUCity. Her blog is
Friends don’t let friends read Rand
Based on the perhaps mistaken assumption that some of our readers will care what Flannery O’Connor, whose Catholicism deeply influenced her writing, thought of Ayn
In wake of Uganda’s anti-gay bill, White House imposes restrictions, withdraws funding
Saying that passage of the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Act, “calls into question the Government of Uganda’s commitment to protecting the human rights of all its people,
Presbyterians vote to allow clergy to marry same-sex couples
Lauren Markoe of Religion News Service writes: The governing body of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) decided Thursday (June 19) to allow gay weddings within the