Author: Andrew Gerns

Digital Images, Real Controversy

Is it ethical to digitally scan a private space open to the public and then use it to make a video game or a movie without the permission of the owners? Especially when the use of those images is antithetical to the mission and values of the owners, in this case the church? And how should the church react when popular culture uses, comments or intrudes on the church’s sacred spaces?

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While running for President, cradle Episcopalian worships Baptist style

He says little about the current role of religion in his life. “I think it’s something between me and my creator,” McCain said in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers. “It’s primarily a private issue rather than a public one. … When I’m asked about it, I’ll be glad to discuss it. I just don’t bring it up.” He says he attends the Southern Baptist North Phoenix Church because they are “strong on redemption and so am I.” McCain still identifies himself as Episcopalian.

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Cuba’s First Woman Bishop

The Episcopal Church broke new ground in Cuba yesterday by ordaining its first female bishop in the developing world at a ceremony that mixed incense with Caribbean music. The Rev. Nerva Cot said she will bring a feminine touch to leadership of her church’s small but growing congregation in communist Cuba, where religious worship was freed a decade ago.

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O God, Send Me a Sign!

Who thinks up those goofy, pun-laden slogans seen on church marquees and sign boards, anyway? Are phrases like “seven days without prayer makes one weak”

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Who’s Invited to the Dance?

Announcement was made todaythat the long awaited invitations to next year’s Lambeth Conference have been sent out by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams and every one wants to know who is and who is not on the invitation list.

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Virginia Split Goes to Court Today

In what promises to be the first of many such days, a court battle over church property begins today in Virginia. According to a report in the Washington Times representatives of the Diocese of Virginia and the Anglican District of Virginia will face off before Fairfax County District Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows.

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Somewhere Near You

The Episcopal News Service has posted a PDF version of a display ad that was placed on the op-ed page of May 12 editions of

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Leaks About Lambeth

An unconfirmed leak published today on the internet suggests that when invitations go out later this year for the 2008 Lambeth Conference, all Bishops in

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