George Will spoke to Bishop Bob Duncan and declared in his syndicated column that he is a kind of modern day Martin Luther. Episcopalians from around the country wrote letters to their editors saying “not so fast.”
Lionel Deimel notes that one Pittsburgh area former-Episcopal parish has started their own post-card war with a neighboring Episcopal parish.
The Huffington Post profiles Grandmère Mimi, a blogging Episcopalian from Louisiana who has made up her mind.
The Roman Catholic Church wants to declare Cardinal John Henry Newman a saint. They wanted to remove his body to a place where the new saint could be properly venerated. To do this, the body would have to have been separated from the remains of the man Newman wanted to be buried with. After much controversy, they finally opened the grave and found…nothing.
Getting a parish to think of themselves beyond the “four walls” of their church and engaging the community is a critical step of having a vital, active congregation that proclaims Christ. Doing that effectively requires that the congregation nurture their relationship to the community they live in.
Listen to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in an interview byTerry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Gordon Atkinson had a conversation with Marcus Borg and in his blog, he introduces “his thinking and explain why he is such a controversial figure, certainly among conservative evangelical Christians, but for many mainline theologians as well.”
A new phenomenon is spreading through the Christian towns and villages of northern Iraq: Christian security forces, organized through their local churches, are manning checkpoints and working with the Iraqi police.
John O’Malley has written “A Spirit of Affirmation” which details the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, which not only modernized the Roman Catholic Church but had a profound effect on how churches of other traditions responded to the modern world and to each other.
Dean Sam Lloyd of the \Washington National Cathedral and the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church explore the state of the church in the twenty-first century.