Update #2 The Board of Trustees of the General Theological Seminary met with students and the seminary community. The Seminary released a statement. This evening the terminated faculty released a brief statement.
Update #2. The Rt. Rev. M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, monk and, for 20 years, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, died on Friday, Oct. 17 in the care of his SSJE brothers at Emery House in West Newbury, Mass.
In Eugene, Oregon, local faith groups, religious leaders, and volunteers have created Opportunity Village, a community of small houses for the unsheltered homeless.
The Union of Black Episcopalians and the Office of Black Ministries have issued a joint statement on the “Rationale for Historically Black Colleges of Episcopal Church.
The pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have another dimension… “there is an undercurrent of another, much older tension: Between Christianity and Communist China.”
Archbishop Justin Welby is interviewed by Canon Ian Ellis of the Church of Ireland Gazette.
The TREC town meeting was last night. It is taking a while to digest the implications. You can watch it again on-line.
Here is an update on the goings on at General Seminary and further reflection on what the situation means for the rest of the church.
Claiming a religious exemption from things like birth control and gay marriage is a favorite cause of people on that side of the Culture War, but to say “my sandbox, my rules” –which has roots in the white only private schools and clubs that sprung up in the wake of the end of forced segregation–really a plausible argument to protect religious freedom?
The Rev. Ellen Tillotson, a priest in the Diocese of Connecticut and a member of the General Seminary Board of Trustees reflects on the conflict between the faculty and the Dean at the Seminary.