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Lord Halifax: an Anglo-Catholic from another time

August 7, 2010 7 Comments

Churchill called Halifax the Holy Fox and sent him off as British Ambassador to Washington in 1941. Halifax visited Tuskegee Institute in 1943 and afterwards wrote of its students, They are asking for bread and getting a stone. He saw segregation as a great human problem building up, not being tackled by very wide-seeing people, and a good many things that are being followed are pretty hollow.

In the language of the people

August 7, 2010 No Comments

If there be one point of ecclesiastical order which would at first might seem, more than any other, to be commanded by Holy Scripture, fashioned by primitive usage, and required by common sense, it is surely this,—that the public offices of the Church should be offered in the vernacular language of the people. To employ, in addressing God, a tongue which his worshippers cannot comprehend; to wrap up lessons, epistles, and gospels in the obscurity of a dead language,—can this be a reasonable service?

Pennsylvania’s Standing Committee looks forward

August 6, 2010 5 Comments

The Standing Committee invites you to gather at our Cathedral at 4:30 p.m. this Sunday afternoon, August 8, for Evening Prayer, a time of open conversation and an opportunity to share our thoughts and feelings. Our Dean, Judith Sullivan will lead our worship and Assisting Bishop Rodney Michel will guide our conversation.

Measuring productivity in the church

August 6, 2010 6 Comments

As pastors, we care deeply about the health and vitality of our congregations. But how can we grasp congregational health? We need a measure that’s simple, clear, and life-giving.

Springfield gears up to chose a new bishop

August 6, 2010 No Comments

Asked how he expects Saturday’s nominating synod to play out, Ashmore, rector of Trinity Church in Jacksonville and secretary of the standing committee, which has ecclesiastical authority in the diocese in the absence of a bishop, was at a loss for words. “I’m not really sure (of the outcome),” admitted Ashmore. “And that’s the end product of a lot of thought.

Sun and shadow

August 6, 2010 No Comments

Tauler, the preacher, walked, one autumn day

without the walls of Strasburg, by the Rhine,

Pondering the solemn Miracle of Life;

As one who, wandering in a starless night,

Feels, momently, the jar of unseen waves,

Diocese of Pennsylvania Standing Committee Statement

August 5, 2010 2 Comments

Dear Diocesan Family: Last night, we received the decision of the Court of Review reversing the conviction of Bishop Bennison based upon the statute of

Bennison reinstated

August 5, 2010 18 Comments

The Living Church has the ruling or view here. Key passage:

Share your thoughts on clergy health and burnout

August 5, 2010 No Comments

Please share with us your thoughts on clergy health and burnout. It’s easy and anonymous. Go here to give us your thoughts.

Comprehensively beautiful, not tightly consistent, Part II

August 5, 2010 1 Comment

We who are Anglicans in this time have been handed on quite a lot. The dispersed authority and many authorities makes Anglican Christianity capable of error, open to correction, contingent in decision-making, and dependent on God. This makes us pilgrim Christians living in an eschatological tense, or perhaps better, mood, a mood that is hopeful, and thus, subjunctive, as if all things are already reconciled in Christ because Christ promises precisely this.

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