Are women dangerous?
July 14, 2010
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“Marriage has been destabilised because men are being discouraged from giving a lead and women are being discouraged from taking one.” – As seen on Anglican Mainstream
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Men wearing frocks, bishops wearing bras
July 14, 2010
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If God wasn’t so darned busy, she’d doubtless despair. What is it with these men in frocks that they won’t let women wear the ecclesiastical trousers? Heaven knows they spent long enough letting them tiptoe from the kitchen to the pulpit. – Ruth Wishart (Molly Ivins reincarnate?)
A true Mohegan
July 14, 2010
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From 1765 to 1768, Occom traveled to England as a fundraiser for Moor’s Indian Charity School, an educational experiment designed by the Yale-educated New Light minister Eleazar Wheelock to train Native missionaries. Throughout his tour, Occom was ogled, scrutinized, mocked, misrepresented, interrogated, and exoticized.
A call to humility in times of conflict
July 14, 2010
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Thomas Merton: “Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis. It sets us free to act virtuously, to serve God and to know Him. Therefore true humility can never really inhibit any really virtuous action, nor can it prevent us from fulfilling ourselves by doing the will of God.”
Open paths
July 13, 2010
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Keeping a “true Corrispondence” between Indians and colonists in colonial Pennsylvania required skilled negotiators, and on the colonial side of the fence, there was no one better than Conrad Weiser.
Bonnie Anderson to visit Diocese of Springfield
July 12, 2010
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“I am eager to visit the Diocese of Springfield as it prepares to elect a new bishop,” Anderson said. “Such elections provide the perfect opportunity for laity and clergy to collaborate on a new vision for their diocese, and to explore new ways of working together in building up the Church and reaching out to the poor and the marginalized.”
Anglican District of Virginia files motion of appeal
July 12, 2010
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ADV wants to now claim that it is significant that at some point in time congregations that were part of the provincial boundary crossing operations of the Province of Uganda became members of ADV, and under some horticultural purity law that means the nine congregations that affiliated initially only with the Church of Nigeria cannot be considered on a branch descended from the Church of Nigeria.
Vatican: ordaining women as great a sin as raping children
July 12, 2010
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New rules the Vatican is expected to issue soon on penalties for priests who sexually abuse children will also put the ordaining of women in the same category of the most serious crimes under church law.
Why worship must change to be effective
July 12, 2010
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The church has to adapt its worship because our culture doesn’t recognize the value of worship when done as it was in generations past. Each generation is different in what it resonates with because over time the culture changes. The result is that worship rooted in previous generations loses its power to connect with each succeeding generation.
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