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In a statement released on Oct. 19, the Dean of the province, Bishop Albert Chama of Northern Zambia, stated that Bishop Kunonga and Bishop Elson Jakazi of Manicaland were no longer bishops of the church and the Sees of Harare and Manicaland had been declared vacant “with immediate effect.”
Integrity News is reporting the California Diocesan Convention has approved same sex blessing rites by an overwhelming margin. Although the Convention passed the resolution, only the bishop has the power to authorize these rites.
Friends Congregational UCC in College Station, Texas, learned this summer that the church was disqualified from Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree program, which encourages churches to buy Christmas presents for the children of inmates.
It’s tough to walk with God when you have all of these options staring you in the face. I think the last thing the Christian community needs is another person who says they have it all together, a 12-step process for being perfect. That doesn’t exist. I can help people by being honest.
I cannot even express what it was like to learn that perhaps all my questions were not signs of sinfulness or fault; I can’t begin to explain the overwhelming and startling joy at encountering a God who did not look at me only to see where I had failed, but who accepted me and called me to higher places.
Good Shepherd of the Hills of Cave Creek, Arizona and its involvement in issues of migration and day laborers will be seen on ABC’s Nightline.
In 1988, the Episcopal Church endorsed a new set of guidelines governing Christian-Jewish relations. Supersessionism’s repercussions, the guidelines read, had been “fateful.”
Bob Stumbles, chancellor of the Diocese of Harare, brings blessed clarity to the confusing saga of Bishop Nolbert Kunonga, the pro-Mugabe leader of that diocese, and makes it clear that the bishop is using the issue of homosexuality as a smoke screen to divert attention from his personal misdeeds. Stumbles also makes it clear that the reports of the province’s dissolution are in error.
Ten men and women are singing a cappella, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name,” and their voices drench us fugitive worshippers kneeling, naked, trembling, needy, in the knowledge of grace, and when we arise and go out into Baltimore, the blessing follows us.