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The Archbishop of The Church of Nigeria, Nicholas Okoh, has called for the selection of the Archbishop of Canterbury to be more international and for the post to be term-limited.
We hear more news of religious leaders telling their followers how they must vote…or else!
Bishop Eugene Sutton of Maryland has written a pastoral letter on several ballot measures in front of voters in his state this coming Tuesday. While reminding Maryland Episcopalians should vote their consciences, he makes the case for marriage equality (Question 6) and the DREAM Act (Question 4). He explains why he opposes expanded gambling (Question 7).
Not only do 1 in 5 Americans now admit they have no religious affiliation, most of the rest overstate their church attendance.
A new study by the Pew Center for Religion and Public Life says that Atheists and agnostics know about religion than evangelical and mainlines Protestants and Catholics.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock started a firestorm of controversy during a debate in Indiana Tuesday when he said pregnancies from rape are “something
This is not Bishops Jefferts Schori and Lawrence on a collision course. It is Lawrence and an inner circle of leaders who, with wide support from a group of diocesan clergy, who have set on a course that a handful of faithful clergy and lay Episcopalians are trying to avert using the only tools they have.
Graham James, the Bishop of Norwich, addressed his Diocesan Synod last Monday. Right now, the conventional wisdom (and the bookies) have him as one of the two front-runners for the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Church Times is reporting that Rowan Williams is urging a final push to pass the measure to allow the ordination of women to the episcopate.