Mark Achtemeier is a Presbyterian pastor and a seminary professor. He’s also a man who has been open about how he has changed his mind on the question of the full inclusion of LGBT Christians into the church. He details the process that led to his re-thinking in an essay.
Forty or so people from all over the Anglican Communion recently met in Hong Kong to plan a coordinated response to the scandalous practice of human trafficking. The most common form involves forcing children and women into the sex trade, but its rising tide now includes forced labor and organ harvest.
The House bill regarding Health Care reform passed this weekend with some significant restrictions regarding doctors and clinics ability to provide abortions to those who choose them. According to reports, this was due to intense lobbying by the Catholic Bishops Conference.
Most of the news today is about the Vatican’s new program that invites disaffected Anglicans into a special relationship with the Roman based church. But there’s also a lovely story of a Synagogue in Kansas who decided to reach out to support an Episcopal parish in need.
The full details of the new Apostolic Constitution have been released. Most of it is what people have expected, but there are places such as when it describes the role of priest functioning as bishops in all but name that are surprising in how far they go.
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Lately civic and religious discourse in America has taken on a certain road-rage quality according to Katherine Marshall. Recently she was able to observe an ethics consult at the Chicago Medical School. She came away believing that perhaps there is a more excellent way for us to engage one another
The Church of Pakistan adopted a strong statement decrying the violence against Christians earlier this year in Gojra. It lays the blame specifically at the feet of those who are using religion for political ends and calls for six concrete steps to be taken in response.
Bishop Alan Scarfe points out something not many others have seen in the latest initiative to include Anglican communities into a full communion relationship with the Holy See. There’s not much future in community defined as being opposed to other communities.
The silence on the part of the leadership of the Anglican Communion regarding the proposed “Anti-Homosexual” legislation in Uganda is scandalous according to Colin Coward of “Changing Attitudes”. He calls for a swift and strong response.