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March 21, 2012 6 Comments

Hi folks, it seems that our server migration issues are in hand. Nice to see you all again.

Lessons from Cantuar

March 21, 2012 1 Comment

by George Clifford Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’ announcement that he would step down from his post at the end of 2012 pleased me and

But whilst any liberalism was dropped, so not to impose his supposed private view, he did impose his personal ecclesiology on the excuse that this was corporate. The purple in his eyes blinded him to the fact that bishops came from different Anglican Churches.

Cyril of Jerusalem: exiled again

March 18, 2012 2 Comments

I think about Cyril sometimes in light of what seems to happen every time we get a pile of Anglican bishops together worldwide and it seems some of them want to exclude others of them from the table, or when they start having notions that two X chromosomes make someone incapable of balancing a mitre on one’s noggin. Pretty soon, people start throwing the H word around–heresy.

Patrick: bishop and missionary

March 17, 2012 No Comments

We have a lot to thank Ireland for, including Patrick and Patrick’s Lorica, the Breastplate. Who needs green beer when they can have a daily dose of poetry, prayer and statement of faith, all in one shot?

Breaking: Rowan Williams stepping down at year’s end

March 16, 2012 21 Comments

UPDATED: Rowan Williams will step down as Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of 2012 to become head of Magdalene College at Cambridge.

Remember you are dust…

March 16, 2012 8 Comments

by Donald Schell This year I’ve heard great stories from San Francisco, Chicago, Brooklyn and elsewhere of little bands of Episcopalians taking Ash Wednesday ashes

The intense and conflicted relationship of Komen and the Catholic bishops

March 15, 2012 No Comments

Internal Komen documents reviewed by Reuters reveal the complicated relationship between the Komen Foundation and the Catholic church, which simultaneously contributes to the breast cancer charity and receives grants from it. In recent years, Komen has allocated at least $17.6 million of the donations it receives to U.S. Catholic universities, hospitals and charities.

Yet another definition of what it means to be Anglican

March 15, 2012 18 Comments

Mark Harris: Where did the idea “the four-fold shape of the Anglican way” come from, and how did the recitation of the way as one “formed by Scripture, shaped by worship, ordered for Communion and directed by God’s mission” come to be determined? Probably in a document of some Commission, or a paper at a meeting of TEAC. But who knows?

National Cathedral on post-earthquake comeback trail

March 15, 2012 No Comments

Cathedral officials have backed away from an opportunity to seek millions of dollars in aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Accepting money from FEMA would have required the cathedral to state that it was not primarily a religious institution.

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