Reactions are rolling in on the last minute intervention by the ABC and the ABY into the well-laid plans of the Church of England General Synod to approve women bishops. The two archbishops call their plan co-jurisdiction. There’s broad agreement that it’s arm twisting, it’s hypocritical, it’s naive, and it’s absurd.
The Episcopal Church, as readers of this blog know is a veritable cesspit. Whereas the Church of Nigeria is a model of unity and mature Christian discipleship, as well as being a beacon to the Anglican Communion. Which is why this little dust-up over the weekend at St. Paul’s Church in the Diocese of Lagos West is such a bummer.
The two men met online in April 2007, and not long afterward discovered a cause that would become their bond — the fight against the child sex trade in Cambodia. They eventually met Somaly Mam, a Cambodian woman who had been forced into prostitution as a child and now leads efforts to combat the trade. They began helping her fledgling foundation in the United States.
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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have signalled their intention to propose jointly in due course an amendment to the draft legislation to enable women to become bishops in the Church of England due to be debated at General Synod in July.
Vision 2019, in which Canadian children offer the Archbishop of Canterbury and his staff free instruction in the art of getting over themselves.
In brief, do everything as though in the presence of God and so, in whatever you do, you need never allow your conscience to wound and denounce you, for not having done your work well. Proceeding in this way you will smooth for yourself a true and straight path to the third method of attention and prayer which is the following: the mind should be in the heart
Comedy Central — the same TV network that managed to both anger and bow to Muslim sensibilities in April by airing and later censoring a “South Park” episode portraying the Prophet Mohammad — is now at the center of a pre-emptive storm over plans to develop a comedy show about Jesus.
We have long held in the Episcopal Church that we share in the priesthood of all believers. Certainly, we emphasize in the Baptismal Covenant proclaiming by example, and seeking and serving Christ in all persons. Perhaps we need to think about the diaconal ministries in which we all might serve, and in which ordained deacons can lead us. Perhaps we need to think about “the diaconate of all believers.”
God is always infinitely near and infinitely far. We are fully aware of Him only if we experience both of these aspects. But sometimes, when our awareness of Him has become shallow, habitual—not warm and not cold—when He has become too familiar to be exciting, too near to be felt in his infinite distance,