The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York has told a newly formed episcopal search committee that they are to adhere to the terms of 2006 General Convention Resolution B033.
The AP reports that the Iowa Supreme Court says the state’s same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples.
The Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality has released reports that will come before the 2009 Churchwide Assembly, August 17-23, 2009, in Minneapolis. If the four resolutions pass, it will effectively give Lutherans a local option as to same sex blessings and the ordination partnered gay ordinands.
The Episcopal Church has been conducting environmentally responsible conventions for many years and today new initiatives were announced to make the next General Convention the greenest convention ever.
Here is the 2009 Easter message from the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
The stations of the cross are in Wales, and on Good Friday you can ride the train to each one.
The Obama administration has not ended the Bush administration practice of allowing faith-based groups that receive federal funding to discriminate in hiring.
The Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and executive director of Political Research Associates and vicar of St. David’s Episcopal Church has been named the new president and dean of Episcopal Divinity School.
George Pitcher writes in the Telegraph that retirement of Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester may be “emblematic of the decline of a political force in worldwide Anglicanism, which as recently as last year threatened to tear our Communion apart.”
The Most Rev. Rowan Williams and other Christian, Jewish and Islamic leaders are calling on the leaders of the G20 nations to remember the most vulnerable and the moral implications of their choices when they meet in London this week.