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Author: Episcopal Cafe
Diocese of Washington church to join Roman Catholic ordinariate
Leaders of the church said Monday that they were not leaving the Episcopal Church because of the ordination of gays and women … Instead, church members said, they were satisfying their longing for a clear religious authority by welcoming the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI.
Enshrining gay exclusion in CoE
Do we really think that straight bishops have been challenged to repent of whatever they might have got up to at university, as it were? Of course not. And this double standard is a clear symptom of the fact that what is really going on here is prejudice, pure and simple.
Church Center new COO: +Stacy Sauls
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has named Diocese of Lexington Bishop Stacy F. Sauls as chief operating officer for the Episcopal Church. Sauls was confirmed in a conference call with the Executive Council this morning.
The oppressive myth of unity in the Anglican Communion
I’m trying to get my head around how the exclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from being part of the full life of the church promotes unity, especially because bishops also vow to “uphold justice”. It seems to me, there is something distorted in this image of unity. For one thing, it reeks of empire.
Spain indicts Salvadoran military officials
Spain has indicted 20 Salvadoran military officials for the 1989 murders of 8 Jesuits and 2 women according to
Nova Scotia/PEI Anglicans okay same sex blessings
Anglican parishes in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island now have permission to bless same-sex marriages, but they still can’t perform the ceremony for gays and lesbians.
Slee memo details fierce dissension over preferment of gay clergy to bishoprics
“[B]oth archbishops behaved very badly. The meeting was not a fair consideration at all; they were intent on wrecking both Jeffrey John and Nick Holtam equally, despite the fact that their CVs were startlingly in an entirely different and better league than the other two candidates”
Oprah: icon of spiritual but not religious
Winfrey may be tapping into her higher power, but she’s also connecting with trends in religious behavior in American culture at large. We are a nation of seekers who increasingly report being unaffiliated with any particular religious tradition.