Changing the Church
January 24, 2009
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Coping with hard economic times
January 24, 2009
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During my husband’s job loss in the 1983 recession, we learned useful lessons that we put into our “ NOWork Workshop” for families who wanted to survive and even thrive during those scary years. We based our coaching on a team approach to job loss that stressed the importance of maintaining one’s individuality without becoming a victim or allowing the crisis to consume the family.
Changing the church
January 24, 2009
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A hundred years ago a baby was about to be born in the fishing village of Aberdeen on Hong Kong island. Its gender was not known. Boy babies were highly prized. At that time, in that culture, a bowl of ash could be at hand to smother unwanted new-born girls.
The core values are conservative
January 24, 2009
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Virginia coadjutor considers gay ordination
January 23, 2009
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…last fall [Johnston] accepted the recommendation given to [him to] grant the status of postulancy for Holy Orders to a person who is in a committed same-sex relationship but he has decided not to move forward until the Diocesan listening process is completed.
A call for civility
January 23, 2009
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On the eve of the Inauguration which seemed to make “inclusiveness” its by-word, two religious leaders, a conservative Evangelical and a liberal Jew launched the
Religious leaders praise torture ban
January 23, 2009
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Religious leaders are celebrating President Barack Obama’s executive order banning torture. Michael Paulson of The Boston Globe is on it.
Bishop Lee sets departure date
January 23, 2009
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From the Diocese of Virginia: The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee announced today that on October 1, 2009, he will step down as bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, leaving the Diocese in the capable hands of his successor the Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston.
Another view of the Inauguration
January 23, 2009
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A young member of a Connecticut Episcopal parish has written up her eyewitness account of the Inauguration. She comments particularly on the crowd’s reaction to
Presiding bishop accepts two bishops’ renunciation of ministry
January 23, 2009
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has accepted written statements from retired Bishop William Wantland and Henry Scriven that they have renounced their ministries in the
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