Breaking:The ELCA Churchwide Assembly has passed the third resolution about human sexuality and ministry and has opened ordination and “rostered” leadership to partnered gay and lesbian persons.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church and the United Methodist Church entered into full communion at the ELCA Churchwide Assembly meeting in Minneapolis.
Breaking News Today the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church is voting on four major pieces of legislation that modifies their ministry policies. If passed in its entirety then the ELCA will allow people “in such publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships to serve as rostered leaders of this church.”
Brian McLaren writes an open letter to conservative Christians, saying that they can positively influence the healthcare debate if they can uncouple their theology from the bandwagon of the talk-radio idealogues.
Andrew Brown says that the current evangelical orthodoxy about gay people cannot last because there are just too many gay Christians, but progress is heartbreaking.
The Episcopal Church’s General Convention office has produced a 25-page summary of actions of the 76th General Convention available as a downloadable, searchable PDF.
Colin Coward of The Changing Attitude is angry and he says a tipping point has been reached. The language of the Archbishop of Canterbury in
Canon Dr Alyson Barnett-Cowan has been appointed Director for Unity, Faith and Order at the Anglican Communion Office.
Here is our weekly collection plate of a few of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print.
Douglas Stevenson, Director of the Center for Seafarers’ Rights at the Seamen’s Church Institute, is on board the Maersk Idaho and sailing through “Pirate Alley”, that is, the Gulf of Aiden. He departed Cairo on Sunday, August 2, and will arrive in Dubai on August 10th.