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Executive Council has full plate

June 7, 2007 No Comments

The Executive Council has a full agenda for its meeting in Parsipanny, NJ, June 11-14. Responses will be made to the House of Bishops resolutions and the Communique requests. On the agenda will be responses to Episcopal profits from slavery, the Farm Bill currently before Congress, how to reach out to members of dioceses in places where the leadership is looking at leaving the Episcopal Church and a visit with Davis Mac Iyalla, the leader of Changing Attitude Nigeria (CAN).

More Lambeth Invites Likely

June 7, 2007 No Comments

The invitation list for the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops is not complete, according to Canon James Rosenthal, communications director for the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), who said it is possible more invitations will be extended in the coming months.

Presiding Bishop To Testify Before Senate Thursday A.M.

June 6, 2007 1 Comment

Thursday morning, June 7, the Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, will testify before the United States Senate’s Environment and Public Works

Wednesday Daily Office

June 6, 2007 No Comments

Though the cords of the wicked entangle me, * I do not forget your law. At midnight I will rise to give you thanks, *

Southern Africa: Archbishop calls for reconciliation in the Holy Land

June 5, 2007 No Comments

“If we have learned anything at all from our experiences in South Africa, surely it is this: that the only lasting solution to any conflict must come through a process of reconciliation that paves the way for a future built upon justice, where former antagonists can find true freedom, peace and prosperity together, and where each is served by, and therefore promotes, the flourishing of the other.”

Tuesday Daily Office

June 5, 2007 No Comments

On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping

Putting the Fire in a Fireplace

June 5, 2007 1 Comment

Pentecostal churches are good at evangelizing, bringing people in, but they have also noticed that many of those people that they have brought into churches would over time go to more traditional churches and seeker-friendly megachurches. Is traditional liturgy part of the appeal?

Saturday Daily Office

June 2, 2007 1 Comment

“Weeping may spend the night,* but joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30 Evening darkens, grief knocks at my door and moves in for the

Friday Daily Office

June 1, 2007 No Comments

But as for me, I have trusted in you, O LORD. * I have said, “You are my God. My times are in your hand;

Plurality and Diversity Rich Source for Growth

May 31, 2007 No Comments

“It has been proven in our relations that we greatly represent the plurality and diversity that are universal characteristics of Anglicanism and that we hold different positions on the themes that are presently discussed in the Communion. However, we have also experienced that the plurality and diversity we represent has become a rich source for growth, rather than a cause for controversy and division.”

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