Colin Coward has a point about the CoE, and (perhaps too high) praise for the Episcopal Church, when he proposes a new campaign to end secrecy, subterfuge, and abuse in the church of his England over the matter of sexuality and the episcopacy.
“It has some nice features — French doors — a very typical house of the time and it’s fairly well made, but it would take the right place and the right person”
To the full extent of my capacity, I say that I am sorry . . . I know that many very good people have been deeply hurt, and I know that the Lord expects better of us,” Elder Jensen
If hindsight is 20/20, wouldn’t it be nice to see what people in the future would think about us? What present day practices will future generations condemn as “evil”?
“The archbishop has expressed a keen desire to visit Calcutta, as the city had a rich Anglican connection and used to be the seat of Metropolitan (a centre directly under the archbishop) before 1970. ”
“I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Being my brothers and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me, and I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings.”
The author of “The Family” and the new book “C Street” visited with Episcopal Café about his research. Conversation ranged from the secretive work of Doug Coe to the potential for genocide in Uganda.
Following up on the announcement several months ago of the impending retirement of Bishop Chane of Washington, word came our way earlier this week, but
We’d take it a bit further than just being about sex, or even clergy, strictly speaking. In terms of meriting copy space, the headlines actually seem to be several. For one thing, he crossed himself – that is, said something apparently at odds with prior behavior, at least as “The Body’s Grace” attests.
“I am praying hard for Ted,” Armstrong said. “[I]t’s hard for any of us to understand the level of temptation or the level of attack he’s had to deal with, but if this is the case then he walked up to the edge and was victorious, and I think we ought to celebrate that.”