How to select an Archbishop of Canterbury
This is the news release describing in detail the process of choosing the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
This is the news release describing in detail the process of choosing the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
In the late fall of 2011, Bishop David M. O’Connell, of Trenton, N.J., surveyed nearly 300 nonchurchgoing Catholics in his diocese asking some simple question: “Why did you leave?” and “Where did you go?”
When the Rev. Genieve Blackwell is consecrated Assistant Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn by Bishop Stuart Robinson, the Archbishop of Sydney, and Metropolitan of New South Wales, Peter Jensen will stay away “for reasons of conscience.”
Thinking Anglicans and Wounded Bird has a round up of reactions to the failure of the Anglican Covenant in the Church of England, and with it, the apparent failure of the plan in the Anglican Communion as a whole.
Two days after he was consecrated as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida, Gregory Brewer was marching Monday with the crowd demanding justice for Trayvon Martin.
Willie Geist on NBC’s Rock Center explores the tension between the need for quiet in theaters, concerts and in church and the ever-present cell phone. He interivew theRev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones of Trinity Church, Wall Street who shares a humorous story about the phone that just won’t stop ringing.
The leaders of Clergy for Equality, representing twelve faith traditions in North Carolina, are against a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in that state. This Sunday, 30 clergy in Charlotte will speak against it from their pulpits.
Who might the next Archbishop of Canterbury be? The Church Times and the oddsmakers check in.
The Diocese of Eastern Oregon will present a resolution to the next General Convention to change the Constitution and Canons and the Prayer Book to ” invite all to Holy Communion, ‘regardless of age, denomination or baptism.’ :
As national attention and moral outrage grows after the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, the question arises “Where is the white church?” Leaders of Florida’s white churches have issued statements calling for a thorough investigation along with the arrest and prosecution of the shooter. And local Episcopal clergy have joined in with the rallies taking place in Sanford.