So I thought to myself, “Well if that’s not really the beginning of the church’s story what did Jesus really say?” And that took my imagination back before the Great Commission to words that no scholar that I know of has any problem saying that Jesus actually said.
Here is a collection of a few of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week.
“I want to raise the strengths and uniqueness of what it means to be an Anglican Christian — of holding Orthodox views, but doing so in a way that remains open to all sorts of conditions of people. The separatists seem to have an emphasis on disciplining people who have different lifestyles than they do. That’s alien to the Anglican Communion.”
On gay marriage, among Episcopalian clergy, 49% believe marriage should be legal, 38% civil union should be legal but not marriage, and 13% would give no legal recognition. Compared to other mainline denominations, Episcopalian clergy were most likely to disagree (36%) or strongly disagree (53%) that the Bible was the inerrant word of God.
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Early Christians were all supposed to be martyrs—witnesses—although not all were expected to die. . . . The eagerness with which many early Christians sought a public occasion to give witness indicates that they had already been primed, indeed trained, for the opportunity.
The bishops of Central Africa have released a statement regarding the formation of a new “Unity” government in Zimbabwe, a country whose president Robert Mugabe’s
I indicated to Archbishop Williams my intentions with regard to my giving permission for these blessings to begin to take place. We went on to have a very helpful and frank conversation about the implications involved and I expressed my own personal commitment and the strong desire of the Diocese of Niagara to remain in communication and dialogue with our sister and brother Anglicans around the world.
A Roman Catholic Archbishop in Brazil has punished the doctors and the mother of a 9 year old who became pregnant as a result of being raped by her step father. The mother and the doctor were found to have aided the girl in ending the pregnancy by means of abortion.
A three-judge panel from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the man — who says he was molested in the 1960s by a priest at a Catholic school — can pursue a civil lawsuit against the Holy See because the priest allegedly abused him while serving in a religious capacity.