GAFCON seeks funding
March 8, 2008
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Thinking Anglicans has a letter from the organizers of the GAFCON meeting in Jerusalem this June. It is interesting to note how many of those
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Abraham’s Curse
March 8, 2008
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Abraham’s story has never been ours more than it is now. Naming the compulsion to take innocent life in the belief that sacrifice is noble goes beyond the incidents of any single crime, and takes us into the foundations of human culture and of how people understand the divine. The impulse to praise martyrdom, and therefore to encourage susceptible adolescents to become martyrs, is embedded in our cultural DNA.
Barack Obama is a Christian. Now please behave.
March 8, 2008
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The Café doesn’t endorse candidates, and we haven’t had much to say about the presidential election thus far. But as Episcopalians we know how painful it is to be told we aren’t real Christian. In our case, it is because we don’t exclude the proper people. In Barack Obama’s case the reason seems to be mere political expediency. In both cases the charges are not simply erroneous, they are sinful…
Through a blinding sandstorm
March 8, 2008
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It is true that the solitary life must also be a life of prayer and meditation, if it is to be authentically Christian . . . But what prayer! What meditation! . . . Utter poverty. Often an incapacity to pray, to see, to hope . . . a bitter, arid struggle to press forward through a blinding sandstorm.
Putting creation at risk
March 8, 2008
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Our material comforts give us so much to be grateful for. Kings and queens, in days gone by, never knew the luxuries we take for granted. Most of us live and eat so well, our biggest threat is overdoing it. And yet our little empires, our cars, gadgets and homes, are built on something that threatens to bring it all to ruin – the production and use of energy.
A media briefing from the House of Bishops meeting
March 7, 2008
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Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori shared her hopes for the upcoming Lambeth Conference: “that we go with a sacrificial attitude open to one another, expecting divine encounters,” that “we are willing to embrace the pain of difference as a sign of hope” and that “we avoid pre- judgments.”
Reconciliation in Louisiana
March 7, 2008
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Charles Jenkins, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, has been searching for a different way of trying to reconcile the people of New Orleans who’s racial and economic divisions have been increasing since the Hurricane.
Bishop of Swaziland speaks truth to power
March 7, 2008
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Bishop Meshack Mabuza, of the Diocese of Swaziland, has come out strongly in opposition to the new government in his country. Mabuza is critical in particular of the new constitution put in place by King Mswati III, the last absolute ruler in Africa.
House of Bishops spring meeting begins
March 7, 2008
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The House of Bishops begins its spring meeting today with a number of items on the agenda. A primary focus of the meeting will be faith-based reconciliation training as part of the preparations for this summer’s Lambeth Conference. The reconciliation workshops will be led by Canon Brian Cox, a nationally known figure in reconciliation work, and one of the two priests appointed as interim pastoral presence in the Diocese San Joaquin.
Kearon on the Communion
March 7, 2008
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In a wide ranging talk give late last month, Canon Kenneth Kearon, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion discussed the present state of the Communion and gave his thoughts on the controversies confronting it.
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