The House of Bishops of the Church of England will review civil partnerships and same-sex relationships in the UK. By 2012, they’ll review the 2005 pastoral statement “in light of recent developments”. By 2013 they will develop proposals on how to continue discussion “…in the light of the listening process.” Meanwhile the legal opinion barring gay bishops stands.
At Episcopal Youth Event, presiding bishop leads call to mission: ‘Get connected and heal the world!’
An Episcopal priest has resigned his position and has begun the process of renouncing his orders after admitting to committing sexual abuse against boys while serving as music director at a Roman Catholic monastery.
The Church of England sent an observer to the Anglican Church in North America gathering in Long Beach, California this week, and their leader is very pleased.
A number of evangelical bishops and clerics in the Church of England have established the Anglican Mission in England “dedicated to the conversion of England and biblical church planting” with the encouragement of the GAFCON primates. They even have a trio of Kenya-ordained English priests to serve “the wider Anglican communion” in England.
The Church Time reports on a study which shows that the three most recent Archbishops of Canterbury have been “consistently controversial political figures.”
Meredith Gould reflects on the hesitation that many in the church still feel towards social media.
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Fred J. Hiltz, writes to Bishop Michael Ingham of New Westminster about the recent Supreme Court of
The Right Rev. Michael J. Hanley, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon, plans to march Sunday in Portland’s annual Gay Pride parade.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted an historic resolution that seeks to give gays and lesbians rights equal to those enjoyed by heterosexuals.