Works in progress
September 24, 2007
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(Updated again) The House of Bishops are working on two different documents, both of which are very time consuming: a pastoral letter to the Episcopal
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Church of Norway re-evaluates
September 24, 2007
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While the Episcopal Church weighs how to deal with the differences in whether to ordain partnered homosexuals or to develop rituals for blessing same sex relationships, and while the House of Bishops debates crucial issues, the National Council of the Church of Norway is reevaluating its pastoral practice after 14 years experience with civil unions in that nation.
As if things weren’t complicated enough
September 17, 2007
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The Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, the Most Rev. Peter Jensen, is said to be moving forward with plans to institute lay presidency of the Holy Eucharist as an integral part of the ministry of the Diocese of Sydney. Significantly, the plan is to do this under the cover of existing canons, designed for others purposes, so that past legislative defeated by the rest of the Anglican Church of Australia can be ignored.
Where true victory is to be found
September 17, 2007
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The voice of the faithful is the most powerful when it gives up human assumptions of power, victory and control. But the Church has become
A moral duty
September 17, 2007
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The Most Rev. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, says the situation in “Zimbabwe cannot any more be seen as an African problem needing an African
“Great love of Heaven, deep dignity”
September 10, 2007
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Every Tuesday night, The Rev. Canon David Bauman dons a black outfit. Not a formal black clerical suit. Not a cassock with red piping Instead,
Visas denied for Iranian religious delegation
September 10, 2007
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A delegation of religious leaders from Iran was supposed to arrived in the US today to meet with Christian leaders from the United Methodist, Episcopal,
When you are in jail, watch what you can’t read
September 10, 2007
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons has directed the departments chaplains to purge their libraries of all religious books which are not on list approved developed
Standing room only
September 10, 2007
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It was standing room only for the students of Trinity Prepartory School of Winter Park, Florida, who put on their production of La Cage aux
A House Divided
September 10, 2007
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There is a report that the The Church of the Province of Central Africa has voted to dissolve. The Province contains the nations of Botswana,
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