TLC TV began airing an 11 part reality series featuring transgender teen Jazz Jennings and her family this past July, The series is titled I Am Jazz. The series has caught the attention of One Million Moms who have begun a two pronged attack on the program in an attempt to get it off the air.
Friday, 21 AUG, the commission on the marriage canon held it’s final meeting in the national offices of the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC) in Toronto Ontario Canada. The commission has had one mandate, to make recommendations to CoGS on the feasibility of changing the ACoC’s canon 21 – the marriage canon – to allow same gender marriage.
Representatives of the five Maori dioceses which are the Maori Anglican Church gathered in a conference (Te Runanganui) in Wellington New Zealand on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 7 – 9 AUG. They gathered to worship, listen to invited speakers and to discuss the future and the mission of the Maori church.
Church House Publishing, the publishing arm of the Church of England, has issued a new book on the Psalms. The book is available in print,
When the Church of England made the journey to allowing women to become bishops the Archbishops of Canterbury and York established a process for parishes which cannot accept women exercising priesthood among them to file a grievance should they believe that a bishop in the Church of England has not honored the House of Bishops’ Declaration on the Ministry of Bishops and Priests in supplying the parishes with clergy.
Earlier this week, we published a story in The Lead about the return of the founding director of the Barnabas Fund, Dr Patrick Sookhdeo. The Barnabas
The group who brought charges against the Rt Revd J Jon Bruno has posted a response from the Rt Revd F Clayton Matthews on behalf of the Reference Panel.
The Bishop of the Diocese of Port Moresby in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea (ACPNG), the Rt Revd Denny Guka, wanted to accompany
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada held their church-wide assembly in Edmonton Alberta JUL 9 – 12. During the convention, they re-elected their National Bishop, the Revd Susan Johnson, to a 3rd four-year term. The convention also approved by 95% a motion to allow a lay person to be appointed to preside at communion.
In an article dated 29 JUL 2015, the Pew Research Center has released a series of graphs which show the change in US attitudes regarding same gender marriage from 2001 to the present.