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Gay and lesbian couples seeking immigration rights

September 13, 2010 1 Comment

One of the couples mentioned in the story is John Beddingfield and Erwin de Leon, who have been together for 12 years. Recently they they married in the District of Columbia. Erwin is a graduate student and former interim coordinator of the diocesan networks for Episcopal Relief and Development, and his visas are going to run out shortly. John is the rector of All Souls Episcopal Church.

Judge: military’s ban on gays unconstitutional

September 9, 2010 6 Comments

Beyond God the Father: Scottish liturgy

September 7, 2010 18 Comments

We have really tried not to mess around with the descriptions of God in the biblical text. But what we want to see is generous language when it comes to gender. God is above and beyond human gender. “We are not saying God is not masculine. God is also feminine. The problem is trying to use human language to describe the indescribable

Anglican Church in Sudan discusses independence referendum

September 7, 2010 No Comments

Participants in the conference convened by the Anglican Church in Juba urged sustainability of peace and reconciliation between the North and the South irrespective of the referendum outcome.

Will anyone show up with a fire hose?

September 7, 2010 8 Comments

Can interfaith voices for calm, tolerance and reflection — the love and morality taught by world religions — overcome headlines for a church planning to burn the Qu’ran?

Did Jesus create a mini-church?

September 7, 2010 9 Comments

Live as if you made $50,000 a year … and give everything else away. Take a year to surrender yourself.

Mama Caren Wabukala: wife of Kenyan Archbishop dies

September 7, 2010 No Comments

The Province of Kenya

Bishop allied with Recife hails Kunonga and Mugabe

August 31, 2010 10 Comments

An Ecuadoran bishop with links to the Southern Cone Diocese of Recife thinks Zimbabwe Bishop Nolbert Kunonga is just fine. Kunonga is allied with Robert Mugabe, and has used the government to lock faithful Anglicans out of their own churches. Bishop Crespo of Ecuador has been arrested for arms smuggling in the past.

Is belief an evolutionary advantage?

August 31, 2010 1 Comment

…Bering says that believing that supernatural beings are watching you is so basic to being human that even committed atheists regularly have moments where their minds turn in a supernatural direction…

What ACNA Archbishop Duncan wants

August 31, 2010 6 Comments

The Second All African Bishops Conference has lacked the clarity of the first All African Bishops’ Conference. What I believe we learn from this conference six years later is that Anglicanism without a confession is in a troubled place. The sessions at the conference were dominated by Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and social solutions where the gospel of Jesus is not the driving force. ~~ Duncan

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