This is more of a potluck than a social hour, this week, being a bit later in the day and around dinnertime for the easterners afoot. If you noticed bad links in any of the Facebook stories this week, it had to do with our updating links as news changed over the course of the day.
“What a shocking waste of a Church, and what a disgraceful response to a glorious ministry,” Gledhill writes in anticipating what happens if the Covenant is adopted. “It is illogical to proceed with women bishops while denying homosexuals full participation. Who are we to say that all are not made in God’s image?”
From outside the bright lights and headlines, here is the broader context for Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about condoms, gleaned from the pages of Peter Seewald’s book.
No shock here to learn that the pastor who encouraged his flock to close down their Facebook accounts on the grounds that it leads to infidelity has been seen to have had a similarly themed past in the form of a sexual relationship that took place between himself and a church assistant and sometimes included the pastor’s wife.
David Adams offers a painful and incisive indictment: Jesus would not have been a Christian. No way, no how.
Rowan Williams spoke in Rome and “reaffirmed his dedication to ecumenical relations between the two churches – and his belief that female Anglican priests should not be an impediment to union. ”
It is the first time since the 1960s that a sitting vice president was on the ballot for conference president and lost. The surprise choice affirms the conservative direction of the Catholic church.
Whatever message you heard, it probably emphasized taking a day off. But such sermons betray the fact that the vast majority of us have been taught to read the biblical text through the eyes of those who are economically privileged.
The wording of the Covenant is designed to legitimate future such threats whenever objectors kick up a fuss . . . In effect, those who make the most convincing threats of schism will be enabled to hold the rest of us to ransom, as they have just done.
A series of presentations for the Anglican Covenant is now available.