When we extend our views beyond the bounds of Protestantism, the early fathers afford to us abundant proof of the claim of our Church to be independent on the dictation or the control of an external jurisdiction. However enormous the power, gradually acquired, of a See dominant over the whole of Christendom,
Rescuers’ actions, whether they were religious or not, extended beyond the deeds of the Good Samaritan parable in the Bible. . . .While this biblical story encouraged some to get involved, rescuers were well aware that their decision to help was far more demanding and dangerous than caring for a wounded roadside stranger.
I love camp because for a week I get to ascend into the clean and invigorating air of youthful wisdom. The young people just haven’t lived long enough to acquire toxic levels of prevarication. They say all the things that were the first to erode in us adults. God will always be with me. You are my friend. Jesus is awesome.
“We have experienced some procedural setbacks in our litigation both in Tarrant and Hood counties but we remain firmly optimistic…. Remember that more than a third of the many cases The Episcopal Church has won across the nation are won on appeal. We have always assumed these cases would be appealed no matter which side prevailed at the trial level,” Bishop Ohl said.
The debt of love is natural and continual. We all owe it, and we owe it unto all. And unto whom we owe it we never pay it, except we acknowledge that we owe it still. In this debt of love we must consider why we must love, whom we must love, and lastly, how we must love.
Our church is said to have crossed borders in its pastoral work in the USA. We reject being put in the same category with churches conducting gay ordination and same sex marriage, and the equating of our evangelical initiative (for which we should be commended) with those who are doing things unbiblical. But for the Nigerian initiative and others like her, many of our faithful Anglican American friends who cannot tolerate the unbiblical practices of the Episcopal Church in America could have gone away to other faiths.
Roger Martin introduced to business world readers the idea of an “opposable mind.” As a human thumb allows us to pick up stuff, so leaders must hold together the irreconcilable until some new possibility emerges. Others have written about how much Martin’s description sounds like the gospel. Christians have to affirm things in tandem that the world prefers to pull apart. Does any wing of today’s Anglican Communion have an opposable mind?
Barna Group reports, “Teenagers are consistently among the most religiously active Americans, with nearly six out of every 10 teens engaged in some type of
The General Theological Seminary has reached agreement in principle with its chief lending institution on terms for a $5.3 million short term loan that will provide working capital for the upcoming school year. “After we complete the very complex sale of the Chelsea units we will be required to retire the $5.3 million short term loan. The remaining proceeds will be used to further reduce the Seminary’s debt,” said the Rev. Lang Lowrey, GTS Interim President.
Where the Anglican District of Virginia congregations once wanted to be as far away from The Episcopal Church as possible, they now want to play down their association with Church of Nigeria as much as possible. The Episcopal Church is the embraceable you.