Does this remind you of your Lenten Study Group?
UPDATE: reports that over half of all Americans now support marriage equality. General Convention 2009 C056 (see below for full text) called on the
A miscellany of interesting and encouraging bits from the news – kids against hunger, Lady Gaga Mass, and knitting your way into the royal wedding:
South African Council of Churches President and Anglican Bishop of Pretoria Jo Seoka, and members of his family:
Linda Watt has announced that she will leave her position as Chief Operating Officer for the Episcopal Church in June 2011.
Both clergy and laity (the latter overwhelmingly) rejected the Covenant at the Wakefield Diocesan Synod meeting on Saturday 12th March.
An Alameda family remained in shock Monday night, two days after a thief entered a church and stole a backpack containing urns with the ashes of a recently deceased man less than 30 minutes before the start his funeral. The family is asking the thief to return the ashes – no prosecution or questions.
The document correctly notes that “there is … only one true covenant: that which we receive in Christ as God binds himself to us.” Which begs the question: why, then, this paper Covenant? Do the authors not see the irony of how much they dignify the proposed Anglican Covenant by comparing it to the biblical covenants? Do they not see how poorly it fares in relation to the New Covenant in Christ?