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The great fears

June 19, 2010 No Comments

We fear physical pain, aging, dying. We fear the force of our own distress or depression. We fear being so easily bogged down, bringing no identifiable goodness into the world. Praying takes us right into the middle of these fears and opens their constant little trickle into a swift running stream, for in prayer every early effort to still our fears only intensifies them. We try all the familiar tricks—reciting familiar set phrases, psalms, hymns.

ENS report on Kearon – Executive Council session

June 18, 2010 8 Comments

Jefferts Schori asked the council to vote on Kearon’s request that the session be closed to all but council members. His request was decisively rejected by a show of hands. Bruce Garner of Atlanta told ENS afterwards that he had “never witnessed so much obfuscation in such a short period of time” in his entire life. “We were polite,” he said, “but we asked him questions he could not or would not provide answers to.”

Colin Slee speaks out on #mitregate

June 18, 2010 No Comments

‘It all goes to show what a silly boy I was to be properly courteous to the ABC and ask permission in the first place! But I can also say that my definition that an ‘Episcopal Act’ is consecrating, ordaining, confirming might have been a wiser course of action.”

No #mitregate for woman bishop at Southwark in 2002

June 18, 2010 4 Comments

The Rt. Rev. Ann Tottenham Area Bishop of the Credit Valley Diocese of Toronto : “For the record, I celebrated and preached at Southwark Cathedral on November 9, 2009 with the permission of the Powers-That-Be in the C.of E. in the presence of the Diocesan Bishop and fully vested including mitre. It was a public service to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the C. of E.

ACNA’s Minns in UK to preach

June 18, 2010 6 Comments

Bishop Martyn Minns, missionary bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America in the Anglican Church in North America, will be preaching at St

What scares you?

June 18, 2010 2 Comments

I have experienced the fear of God in those whove been to hell and back in this life, from loss, or suffering, or anguish, who changed from closing to opening hearts, and who are looking to give love to those around. I sensed this fear of God in those who can say, “I know Jesus, he loves me, I love him, and we love you, no matter what”. That’s the Gospel the world needs to hear.

Catechesis for living

June 18, 2010 No Comments

Despite disincentives and persecution, people [in the early church] were drawn to churches in which there was spiritual power, question-posing behavior and a combination of catholicity with community. But what was it that formed Christians and Christian communities so that they would embody these qualities that attracted outsiders? Two community-forming realities stand out: catechesis and worship

Corrected: Standing Commission considers funding for ecumenical relationships

June 17, 2010 7 Comments

Sarah Dylan Breuer of Massachusetts reported that the commission wants to maintain ecumenical conversations with other church bodies, “even if the Anglican Communion Office does not.”

Diana Butler Bass covers #mitregate

June 17, 2010 6 Comments

Canterbury, please know that western people are rejecting Christianity because–as noted in a recent survey of young Americans–Christians are “out of touch with reality.” Being worried about ecclesiastical millinery while Rome burns certainly counts as being out of touch with reality.

Lambeth Palace investigating #mitregate

June 17, 2010 12 Comments

Lambeth Palace are investigating the way the leader of The Episcopal Church was treated in Britain this week. The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts Schori has described as “nonsense” and “bizarre” the edict from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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