A small group of persons representing the breadth of the Diocese has agreed to recruit persons to form a Steering Committee to undertake preparation for a meeting of the Diocesan Convention within the next few months. This follows the pattern set by other dioceses where the former bishop and lay and clergy leaders had left the church.
“The Episcopal Church has made very clear that discrimination is unacceptable,” he says. “Speaking as an American citizen, it would be hard for me to imagine why we would want to say to one group of American citizens that they do not have the same rights as other citizens.”
Psalms 93, 96 (Morning) Psalm 34 (Evening) Ecclesiasticus 51:13-22 1 Corinthians 14:1-12 Matthew 20:1-16 Ecclesiasticus 51:13-22: While I was still young, before I went on
This article focuses primarily on the use and misuses of St Paul in fractious contemporary church debates about sexuality and gender. It can also be read in parallel with the growing body of theological and historical work on re-understanding one of the key figures in the history of Christianity, suggesting that Paul’s project was to create a new community and dynamic which was capable of re-energising the suppressed radicalism of Torah religion in a dangerously imperialistic setting.
On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were
And I saw three foul spirits like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth
by Margaret M. Treadwell “If you want to be close to Jesus, be with the poor,” says Terry Flood, creator and director of Jubilee Jobs
Sources have confirmed that the Eton-educated bishop will be announced as successor to Dr Rowan Williams as early as Friday, after the Crown Nominations Commission put his name forward to Downing Street.
Almighty God, to whom we must account for all our powers and privileges: Guide the people of the United States in the election of officials
by Ann Fontaine Education for Ministry Program offers one answer. I tend to see such movements as the Mars Hill Phonomenon in Seattle in a