The Archive
The ABC and “facts on the ground”
The most important “facts on the ground” were not created by us, whether “innovators” or “traditionalists,” whether primates or bishops or synodical structures. The most important “facts on the ground” were created by God. They are the men and women whom we might serve, to whom we might reach out, and whom we might invite into our midst.
Generous Christianity
Florence Nightingale evoked very different opinions from contemporaries and later critics. The novelist Mrs. Gaskell thought her ‘completely led by God as Joan of Arc. . . . It makes one feel the livingness of God more than ever to think how straight he is sending his spirit down into her, as into the prophets and saints of old.’
Fort Worth requests union with Roman Catholic Church
The presentation was the result of two years of prayer and discernment regarding the future of our Diocese. At the conclusion of our discernment period, we shared our Findings with our Bishop, the Right Reverend Jack Leo Iker. Bishop Iker endorsed our report and gave us his “unequivocal support” to proceed with a presentation to Bishop Vann.
Labor organizing effort leads to theological dispute
The Sisters of St. Joseph sponsors a system of 14 hospitals and employs 20,000 workers in three states. SEIU wants to organize in these hospitals. The hospital system and the union have reached an impasse as to the rules for an election. The clash is more than between union and management. It is a clash of theology.
Common principles of Anglican canon law
The Anglican Communion Legal Advisors Network have created a book called “Principles of Canon Law Common to the Anglican Communion.” The book was given to
Creating new Christian communities in cyberspace
Simone Heidbrink (aka Hana Undertone) is a junior researcher at the Institute for Religious Studies at University of Heidelberg and has looked at social networking as it effects the creation of new kinds of faith communities via the internet.
Churches deal with energy costs in a variety of ways
As energy costs rise, the church must contend with energy costs. Some congregations are looking at ways to conserve, others are changing the fuel they use, and the General Theological Seminary is heating and cooling the close with geothermal technology.
The Church is not always in church
Every Tuesday evening Phyllis Tickle goes to “Beer and Bible Night” at a local pub and has found that the Church is alive, vibrant and not always in church.
Treating all Lambeth resolutions as holy writ
A Bishop of the Church of England wonders that if Resolution 1.10 is so very important, what about all of those other resolutions passed at all other Lambeth Conferences?