Updated While social media has been abuzz today with news that eight members of the faculty of the General Theological Seminary had been fired, we have been attempting to get this news independently confirmed. Not long ago, we received this email that Dean Kurt Dunkle sent to the student body concerning these events. We will continue to follow the story.
The faculty of the General Theological Seminary in New York, citing an unnamed “serious conflict” have decided to refrain from “teaching, attending meetings, or attending common worship” until the situation is resolved with Board of Trustees.
The Episcopal Church Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop (JNCPB) calls attention to the September 30 deadline for the Call for Discernment and Profile for the election of the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church
While people are feeling warm and fuzzy about Pope Francis’ apparent inclusivity, a Roman Catholic parish has told a gay couple who have been together for thirty years to divorce and break up or else they cannot receive communion in the parish they’ve attended together for 11 years.
The Church of England has beaten the representatives from the Vatican in the first cricket match between the two Christian denominations.
Bishop Charles G. vonRosenberg of South Carolina has welcomed the Rev. H. Dagnall Free back into good standing as a priest in Episcopal Church saying that was an important moment for The Episcopal Church and an encouraging step toward reconciliation in South Carolina.
The Anglican Church of Canada, The Episcopal Church, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have issued a joint pastoral message on climate change.
If by “Christian rock band” you mean repetitively parroting pop-culture with theologically homogenized lyrics then, no, U2 is not a “Christian rock band.” If you mean a band that takes a more complex view of faith and life, then that’s something else. Maybe what you have is a rock band peopled by Christians.
Dr. Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford, conducts important research on race and explains how racism works.
“The words of Jesus, from the Hebrew scripture, call us to love God completely, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. I cannot think of a better moment to put this ancient law into a new practice.”