Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama
April 16, 2008
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The Archbishop and the Lama took part in a panel discussion on religion as part of the Compassion event held in Seattle over the past days.
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Water projects reconcile Christians and Muslims in Rwanda
April 15, 2008
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An interfaith project to provide clean piped water in eastern Rwanda is a practical way to make amends to Muslims in the east African country who have been marginalised in the past by Christians, says Anglican Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini.
Parish nurses offer needed ministry
April 15, 2008
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Health is often related to body, mind and spirit, and I think we’re in a unique position as the church where we can look at this as holistic health. In everything we do, we are looking at integrating our faith with our health.
Krister Stendahl, April 15, 2008
April 15, 2008
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From Harvard Divinity School: It is with immense sadness, but also with immense thankfulness for a singular life wonderfully well-lived, that I write to inform you that Krister Stendahl, our beloved friend, teacher, colleague, and former Dean, died this morning.
Florida priest working for peace in Kenya
April 15, 2008
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The St. Petersburg Times reports on the work of the Rev. John Kivuva, 45, a priest at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church and part-time chaplain at
A report from Sudan
April 15, 2008
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While the nation’s comprehensive peace agreement, signed in 2005, provides for freedom of religion for all Sudanese, in reality there are still obstacles. “We have little freedom,” said Bishop Kondo, whose diocese is home to many southern Sudanese who fled to Khartoum during the civil war.
Church: after Sunday
April 15, 2008
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Several articles have come to our attention about the use of church facilities during the week, including one about Dr. Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, who wants churches to play a larger part in becoming centers for their communities.
The Call to Discipleship
April 15, 2008
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It isn’t all that clear what that means, “fishers of men,” and it doesn’t seem to be their reason for following him: there’s no new job description here. But Jesus is promising some kind of change that begins where they are. That’s the literal meaning of the Greek, I’m told: Follow me: and I will make you to become fishermen-of-people. They will be transformed into some new version of what they already are.
The true shepherd
April 15, 2008
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I once read about a doorman who worked at the same building in Manhattan for dozens of years. On the eve of his retirement, he was interviewed about his life experience as one who opened the door for so many New Yorkers.
22 priests deposed in Florida
April 14, 2008
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Howard said he was merely making official what the ministers have done by aligning themselves with Anglican bishops. He inhibited, or suspended, the clergy six months before deposing them to give them time to reconsider. “They did not desire to remain in the Episcopal Church and this just makes it official,” Howard said. “Not one of them came to me and said: ‘I want to be an Episcopalian.'”
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