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Pilgrimages among the impoverished

March 6, 2008 No Comments

Maybe participants are being spurred not only by generosity but also by a quest to find out what meaning people enjoy while living with hardships that North Americans can barely imagine. Many people return from their pilgrimages to Central American villages with questions such as: How come that people who live with such physical discomforts seem far happier and contented, more trusting and hospitable than we are, who are so cocooned and protected?

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Joint Standing Committee meets

March 5, 2008 No Comments

The Joint Standing Committee of the Primates/Anglican Consultative Council met in London February 29 – March 4. Episcopal Life reports on the meeting. Some excerpts:

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GAFCON will send ‘wrong signals’

March 5, 2008 1 Comment

“It’s happening, they are coming,” said Bishop Suheil Dawani during a visit to Australia in February. “I will be there. I cannot ignore such a gathering. But I’ll give them our message of unity, of how the church must also be united, and of the importance of our ministry in Jerusalem and all over the world.”

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Churchspeak

March 5, 2008 2 Comments

There is no question about it; the Episcopal Church has a “lingo.” We have almost as many acronyms as the United States government, from LEM (Lay Eucharistic Minister) to EYC (Episcopal Youth Community). We like to give perfectly ordinary things new and complicated names. The church’s lobby becomes the “narthex.”

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Perpetually unfinished

March 5, 2008 No Comments

The main reason that the Church is unfinished, of course, is that we humans are ourselves perpetually unfinished. We’ve all experienced the sense that there is always something more to learn, to accomplish, to become. It is this “incurable unfinishedness,” as one philosopher calls it, that sets us apart from other living things, because in trying to “finish” ourselves,

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Reply from Nigeria

March 4, 2008 2 Comments

In response to various reports of the alleged role of Archbishop Akinola of Nigeria in the 2004 Yelwa massacre, Canon Akin Tunde Popoola has written

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