Kenyan Bishop Thomas Kogo said the church had decided to forbid homosexuals from going to their churches if they could not repent and stick to biblical teachings.
The Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu, has spoken out against FOCA, “accusing them of ‘ungracious’ behaviour. Dr Sentamu said he had been ‘deeply grieved’ at reports of criticism and ‘scapegoating’ by the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans of the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams,” from a news report.
A few weeks ago, the New York Post published a bit (filed under “entertainment”) about the Church of the Holy Trinity, an Episcopal Church on the Upper East Side where canine congregants are commonly in attendance. Fast forward to this week, where Huffington Post columnist Verena von Pfetten gets a kick out of the story, but digs a little deeper and discovers that this “Episcopalian” church is more than dog schtick.
Readers probably remember hearing talk of Akinola being denied entry to Jordan for the pre-GAFCON meetings that were being held there. While readers may remember this being downplayed in press releases coming out of GAFCON at the time, turns out Akinola believes it was an act of Satan himself intervening with Jordanian affairs of state in an effort to undermine the conference.
It won’t be news to you, but many clergy are irritated about being pressured to do weddings for couples who want a church wedding, but
Thomas Jefferson epitomized what it meant in America to be a man of the Enlightenment. At his estate of Monticello, he displayed busts of Bacon, Locke, and Newton. Incredibly broad in interests and abilities, Jefferson was sufficiently interested in religious matters that one scholar has described him as “the most self-consciously theological of all America’s presidents.”
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco is one of the sites this summer of the “Jesus for President” tour. The event starts at Grace Friday next
One of the least known, yet most exciting national programs in the Episcopal Church are the EYE gatherings. These every three year events bring young Episcopalians from around the country to meet, pray, study and have a great deal of fun. This year’s gathering is coming up next week, and it’s likely that folks are hitting the road this weekend so that they’ll be in San Antonio in time.
The Church of England begins its yearly General Synod today. First up on today’s afternoon and evening agenda are a discussion of Orthodox-Anglican relations and
Or so states the headline in an Australian newspaper that reports on the reaction of some other bishops in Australia to the recent actions of Bishop Jensen of Sydney.