The records of the recent House of Bishops meeting show that the House agreed not to propose special majorities when it comes to the vote in the General Synod. The decision is surprising, given the impact that the Covenant might have on the Church of England. As so much rests on the vote, a two-thirds majority in the Synod would provide a clearer endorsement. – Church Times
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Petroc Trelawny of the BBC reports: The choice of the new Bishop has split the Anglican Church in Malawi.
The story centers on a young Tibetan refugee and their misadventures at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. While undergoing Buddhist training the young boy’s mind is filled with news about the World Cup. He attempts to explain its importance and its appeal to other monks who are confused, bemused, or downright annoyed at his constant conversations about soccer players. This boy’s meditation is constantly on the game.
When I was a divinity student at Erfurt, my hand happened to alight, one day, in the library of the monastery, on a volume of John Huss’s sermons. Having read, on the cover of the work, the words, Sermons of John Huss, I was immediately inflamed with a desire to ascertain, by perusing this book, that had escaped from the flames, and was thus preserved in a public library, what heresies he had disseminated.
The New York Times features the Rev. John W. Bowie, an unlikely champion of immigration reform in its story about a hopeful event in the
Paul Handley, editor of the Church Times has a column on the Comment is Free section of the Guardian’s website describing the advent of the
“It’s creating two different types of bishop based on gender,” says Rev Lucy Winkett, Canon Precentor of St Paul’s Cathedral, “which in any other area of public life would be called discrimination. We would be enshrining in our very fabric a sense that women are not as much of a bishop as men are.”
It is too early to speculate intelligently on whether Williams and Sentamu let John be included on the shortlist because they didn’t think he could be elected and saw this as a low risk way to give the impression that they had thrown us lefties a bone; they are about to make a big deal about the difference between sexually active and sexually inactive gays and lesbians or because they have had a legitimate change of heart.
O Holy, righteous and immortal God, King of kings and Lord of lords, thou art the Giver of all good, and the only hope of all the ends of the earth. With humble adoration we would lift our heart and voice to thee, in praise and prayer. We adore thee as the God in whom our fathers trusted; as the God, whose holy protecting arm has preserved the people of these United States, through many and great perils.