Bishop Michael Smith writes to his diocese: I am pleased to announce that Bishop Carol Gallagher has accepted my invitation to assist in providing episcopal pastoral care in the Diocese of North Dakota. She has agreed to reach out especially to congregations and clergy who feel alienated and hurt by me due to different understandings of human sexuality.
Did the National Geographic and a team of well-known scholars botch the translation of the Gospel of Judas? The Chronicle of Higher Education makes a compelling case in an exhaustive article on how the text was discovered, preserved (badly) and finally translated and marketed.
From a lawyer’s point of view especially, the procedures in the Appendix to the Covenant for resolving disagreements raise very serious issues about the real purpose of the procedures, whether the procedures are “fair,” and whether they would be workable and appropriate in light of the polity and governance structure of The Episcopal Church.
To his friend in loving embrace, to his brother in the bonds of the Spirit, to Archbishop Egbert, invested with the insignia of the highest office, many greetings and unfailing love in Christ, from Bonifice, a lowly bishop, legate in Germany of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church.
This is true among people who also say they have a favorable view of any of the three leading presidential candidates. For those holding favorable views for John McCain, 55% say marriage is a private decision; for Barack Obama, 75% say so; and for Hillary Clinton, 69% do. All three oppose same-sex marriage. Both Democrats both favor civil unions. – USA Today
Archbishop of Canterbury, News: During the discussions church representatives from around the globe, including Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, Malaysia – alongside those from Western countries where
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black. – Robert F. Kennedy
Merrill Lynch has frozen the financial accounts it manages for the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin until the courts decide the rightful owner of those accounts…. The San Joaquin diocese, along with The Episcopal Church (TEC), on June 2 had amended an earlier lawsuit against Schofield, “on the basis of new information gathered about recent transfers of real and personal property and assets to entities formed by Mr. Schofield and his attorney sometime in early April of 2008,” diocesan chancellor Mike Glass said.
The opposition leader has been detained by the military, and the government has suspended independent aid operations denying access to food to hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. Are we looking at a man’s last desperate grasp to hold onto power, or the failure of the international community to bring justice to bear?
The Anglican Communion is one of the largest networks of human connection in the world….. That far-flung network is the result, in part, of seeds planted by a colonial missionary history. The fruit that has resulted is diverse and local, and indeed, unpalatable to some in other parts of the world. Our task at the Lambeth Conference is to engage that diverse harvest, discover its blessings and challenges, and commit ourselves to the future of this network. – Katherine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church