Zimbabwe’s deposed Bishop Nolbert Kunonga is still defiant even after Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams visited his country and handed President Robert Mugabe a dossier
Frequent Bible readers will, over time, tend to care more about the welfare of people, issues of social and economic justice.
Bishop Lawrence and the leaders of the Diocese of South Carolina are choosing to play an adversarial game in a disciplinary process designed to be restorative. They can claim persecution and denounce the changed rules of the new Title IV because the people in charge of the process are acting with both discretion and integrity.
If you are an active Christian in an evangelical church, a graduate of a major American evangelical college, and gay, where would go to tell other students and graduates of your school that it is possible to be both gay and Christian?
Why do young Christians leave the church? The Barna Group says young people who experience judgmental, overprotective, exclusive churches that are also unfriendly towards doubters leave Christianity behind. They also don’t hang around congregations that are antagonistic to science and offer a shallow Christian experience.
David Briggs, writing in the Huffington Post, says that clergy are retiring later and working longer for the same reason as the rest of the workforce–they can’t afford it.
The upcoming domestic and global mission conference of the Episcopal Church called Everyone Everywhere 2011 will feature free video feeds and live webcasting during the
The Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. Dr. Thabo Makgoba, says the dispute within the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe was “a result not of schism but of thuggery.”
A complaint has been made to the Title IV Disciplinary Board and they are obliged to investigate. Whether or not formal charges are to be made against Bishop Lawrence will depend on the outcome of the investigation.
Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina has been charged with “abandonment of the Doctrine. Discinline and Worship of The Episcopal Church.”