Tomorrow, people in Alabama will walk the path that seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels walked before he was murdered on August 20, 1965. Daniels was a Freedom Rider who went to Alabama to register African-American voters and took part in the march from Selma to Montgomery.
Based on one blog entry by one American priest, Jonathan Wynne-Jones says that Americans are “planning” to “plant” Episcopal Churches in England.
A Roman Catholic priest who was kicked out of his California parish because he supported marriage equality visited All Saints, Pasadena, and reflects on his experience.
The Guardian asks: After Rowan’s long letter about the “futures” of Anglicanism, after all the meetings, resolutions, papers and blogs, “”what difference will any of this make?” They asked four Anglicans, two English, one African and one American, for answers.
Why has homosexuality persisted as a divisive issue for religious traditions and communities, within the Anglican Communion and beyond? Six scholars share their views.
Andrew Brown says that if the Church of England Synod passes the Anglican Covenant it will mean that the CofE will split. MadPriest thinks that progressives in the CofE are not organizing to oppose the Covenant out of politeness to Archbishop of Canterbury.
The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has announced the creation of the Center for Religion and Environment.
President Obama wants to appoint Dr. Francis Collins to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health. Collins is a physical chemist, a
Britain’s Quakers have agreed to carry out same-sex marriages on the same basis as marriages for opposite-sex couples.
Bosco Peters remembers the 40th anniversary of the first communion on the Moon.