The Obama administration has not ended the Bush administration practice of allowing faith-based groups that receive federal funding to discriminate in hiring.
The Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and executive director of Political Research Associates and vicar of St. David’s Episcopal Church has been named the new president and dean of Episcopal Divinity School.
George Pitcher writes in the Telegraph that retirement of Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester may be “emblematic of the decline of a political force in worldwide Anglicanism, which as recently as last year threatened to tear our Communion apart.”
The Most Rev. Rowan Williams and other Christian, Jewish and Islamic leaders are calling on the leaders of the G20 nations to remember the most vulnerable and the moral implications of their choices when they meet in London this week.
Sometimes it is useful to think of a “monastic” as someone who is leading a “consecrated life” – a life consecrated to the service of God in whatever way God designs for them. This might mean a life of seclusion and solitude, or it may mean a life of social engagement, or it may mean a life of radical prayer (radical as in radix).
I have just been reading over your letter, and am more vexed than I can say, though not half so vexed as I ought to be, with myself, for not having answered it. I cannot say that engagements have hindered me. I might and ought to have written; neither am I quite so bad as to have forgotten you. It was the old bad habit.
By now you have probably heard that the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has sent a draft budget to General Convention that eliminates the 0.7% line item for the Millennium Development Goals. Be not afraid. Be very excited. Why? Because this has provided us a moment of great opportunity — an opportunity to give everyone a vision for prophetic and inspirational living out of our Christian call through our budgets.
In a gathering of the Archbishops’ Council, the Church’s executive body, last week, Dr Williams agreed with suggestions that the future of religious broadcasting is under threat.
Kathleen Parker writes: “Ahmanson certainly doesn’t believe that homosexuals should be executed, as some of his critics have suggested, but he does believe that gays should ‘come to Christ and then recover.’ ” But actually, it isn’t his critics who have said this, but Ahmanson himself.