ABC addresses General Synod
February 10, 2009
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‘What is the form of legislation best adapted to the good of the Church as a body where The Others do not simply go away and become invisible?’
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Is Anglicanism too incoherent to fracture?
February 10, 2009
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The Anglican world turns its attention from the primates meeting to the Church of England General Synod. The navel gazing continues. Andrew Brown and Giles Fraser think that’s not Christian.
How the Church can help laid-off workers–like me
February 10, 2009
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In January alone the American economy lost 598,000 jobs. The official unemployment number is 7.6% but that’s an artificially low figure; it doesn’t include those unemployed for over a year or contractors who have no work once a corporation has canceled their project. Some look at this figure and see a crisis needing swift and solid government intervention. Others see it as a system reaping the fruits of failed fiscal policy. Me, I look at it and I see—competition. I already got the call.
Body and soul
February 10, 2009
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The Gospels depict Jesus as having spent a surprising amount of time healing people. Although, like the author of Job before him, he specifically rejected the theory that sickness was God’s way of getting even with sinners (John 9:1-3)
How we spend our time
February 9, 2009
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Episcopalians sometimes complain that all anybody ever learns about our Church is that it is conflicted over the issue of homosexuality. It is almost impossible, this line of argument goes, to get the mainstream media interested in other facets of our life. But every once in a while, a hometown newspaper simply shows up and offers some fairly straightforward coverage of Episcopalians being Episcopalian, and it is a welcome relief.
Amnesty in the hereafter
February 9, 2009
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In recent months, Roman Catholic dioceses around the world have been offering Catholics a spiritual benefit that fell out of favor decades ago — the indulgence, a sort of amnesty from punishment in the afterlife — and reminding them of the church’s clout in mitigating the wages of sin.
Bonnie Anderson on the Primates and the Windsor Continuation Group
February 9, 2009
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The two principal documents released by the Primates at their recent meeting in Alexandria, Egypt, namely The Primates Communiqué and the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group are a study in contrast.
The man who might be Virginia’s next attorney general
February 9, 2009
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William Mims was a member of one of the breakaway Episcopal Churches when he introduced a bill in the Virginia legislature that would have made it easier for such churches to maintain their property when they left the church. The Washington Post suggested that Mims’ intervention was exactly the sort of thing that the separation of church and state was meant to prevent.
Bakare being pushed out in Harare?
February 9, 2009
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Anglican Information reports: there is a now distinct danger that Nolbert Kunonga could promote a candidate of his choice. His own election (overseen by Bernard Malango) was shrouded in mystery and intrigue.
Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori preaches on Day One
February 9, 2009
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was the featured homilist on the Day One radio broadcast yesterday. Read her sermon, and see if you don’t hear echoes of Bill Carroll’s recent essay on the Daily Episcopalian blog.
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