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“Singing Nana” and the Stone Soup song

April 12, 2008 1 Comment

Our grandchildren remind us that children are born with an innate joy in music. Four-year-old Lily has found her voice in creating tunes and lyrics, which she sings in her bath or first thing upon waking. Her sister, Nola, 3, quickly learns words to songs on the radio concerning adult concepts of love and yearning, which she loudly belts out as if on stage. And John, 3, is a guitar player who wildly strums his made-up pieces usually ending with the ABC song.

Going to Emmaus

April 12, 2008 No Comments

Emmaus is where we go when life gets to be too much for us . . . the place we go in order to escape—a bar, a movie, wherever it is we throw up our hands and say, “Let the whole thing go hang. It makes no difference anyway.”

Bear Stearns gave away

April 11, 2008 1 Comment

NYT: As part of the Bear Stearns culture, molded by the former chairman, Alan C. Greenberg, 1,000 senior managing directors gave away 4 percent of

Jerusalem banned, again

April 11, 2008 No Comments

Last week the Very Rev Colin Slee, the Dean of Southwark, banned Jerusalem from a private memorial service in Southwark Cathedral. He has subsequently taken himself off to Brazil (presumably not in a chariot of fire) and is unavailable for comment. But a spokesman for the Diocese of Southwark confirmed that the dean “does not believe that Jerusalem is to the glory of God”.

Anglican African bishops call for pressure on Mugabe

April 11, 2008 1 Comment

After a meeting in Pretoria, bishops from Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia urged regional leaders to put pressure on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to accept disputed poll results.

Australia’s first female Anglican bishop appointed, strings attached

April 11, 2008 No Comments

The Anglican Archbishop of Perth, the Most Reverend Roger Herft, says he hopes the appointment will help overcome resistance to the elevation of women from some parts of the church. Archbishop Herft says the move will refresh the church. “The church has brought about diminishment to women in the world and in the church,” he said.

Belief is back

April 11, 2008 No Comments

The Newstatesman (UK) has three articles today under the heading “Belief is Back.” Mary Warnock, a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s advisory group on medical ethics writes: ‘ It is the role of legislators to be consequentialists. They must not ask, “What does my religion teach about this measure?” but “Will society benefit from it in the empirical world?” ‘

A coherent structure

April 11, 2008 No Comments

When George Augustus Selwyn went as bishop to New Zealand, where Queen Victoria had assigned him a large part of Polynesia as well as the two islands of New Zealand itself, he realized the need for synodical forms to be developed to give Anglicanism outside of the Church of England establishment a coherent theological structure.

Gomez argues for the Covenant

April 11, 2008 2 Comments

In perhaps the most pointed comment of the evening, Leonel Abaroa Boloña, a student at Trinity College, Toronto, stated that Archbishop Gomez had preached at the consecration of two bishops whose consecration was expressly for the purpose of pastoral care to Anglicans in America disaffected by the Episcopal Church’s stand toward homosexuality. Boloña argued that this was inconsistent with the stance of the Windsor Report and the Anglican Covenant.

Religion as political weapon

April 10, 2008 No Comments

Journalist and Professor Richard Domke spoke to Episcopal Communicators today about how the American religious landscape has shifted from “civil religion” to “political religion” that has allowed religion to become a political weapon.

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“Singing Nana” and the Stone Soup song

Going to Emmaus

Bear Stearns gave away

Jerusalem banned, again

Anglican African bishops call for pressure on Mugabe

Australia’s first female Anglican bishop appointed, strings attached

Belief is back

A coherent structure

Gomez argues for the Covenant

Religion as political weapon

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