Author: Jim Naughton

Tweet up and catch the spirit

Tuesday evening marked a new era in the Episcopal Church as many attending the joint meeting of Committees, Commissions, Agencies and Boards (aka CCAB) in

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New Hampshire honors +Gene Robinson

In the case of the retirement of Bishop Robinson, his preference is to have gifts to his “retirement purse” be given to the Diocese of New Hampshire to set up an endowment fund for the funding of continued work in the chaplaincy program at The New Hampshire Prison for Women in which Bishop Robinson did ministry while Bishop of New Hampshire.

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Speaking Faithfully: Telling a story people hunger to hear

Jesus said that no one lights a lamp and puts it under a bushel basket, but Jesus had never met any Episcopalians. As a rule, we have been reluctant to call attention to ourselves. We are more comfortable being the church invisible, the church inoffensive, the church optional, and the church afraid of being associated with intolerant and heavy-handed people who are also Christian.

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Canterbury: See of Twitter

Before “the announcement” he had 2,500 twitter followers. Now he’s approaching 6,000 and growing. It’s going well so far, then. His first tweet after a silence probably necessitated by the impending news of his elevation was on the afternoon of that historic day, 9 November. With the wryness that seems to be one of the characteristics of the man, he wrote: “Just heard of protest call to Lambeth at appointment of a woman as ABC. Am spelt Justin, not Justine. No agenda, just a matter of fact.”

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