Bishop Cathy Roskam wrote these wise words. Try this prayer before your next vestry meeting: God our true perfection: Grant us brevity and resolution to do only those things which should be done, and keep from all that we ought not to do, to say all things needful, and not more.
Acceding to the covenant is voluntary, explained Mr. Kearon, adding that the membership in the Communion of churches will not cease or be altered if their decision-making bodies decide not to sign on to it. “The covenant will only be operative for those who agree to sign the covenant.”
The headline in The New York Times reads: “After 341 Years, Britain Picks a Female Poet Laureate.” In other news, the Archbishop of Canterbury has authorized a network of “flying laureates” to minister to those who don’t believe that God intended women to write poetry, but who want to continue to read it.
Bishop Linda Nicholls of the Church of Canada on a potential pandemic flu: The whole of society will be affected, including the Church, and it behooves us to reflect both pragmatically and theologically on how we will respond. Although the pragmatic response is often the easiest and quickest to deal with, it is especially important to reflect on the theological roots for our response.
Krista Tippett and the staff of Speaking of Faith visited Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland yesterday and tweeted all about it.
The Communion Partner bishops defended their most recent undertaking yesterday in a story released by Episcopal Life Online. Their comments brought this video to mind.
Whereas 41 percent of weekly worship attenders and 61 percent of seldom or never attenders supported him just before the election, now the numbers are 57 percent and 69 percent. Thus the gap between the two groups has narrowed from 20 points to 12 points. What explains the differential?
Most who left both the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations and remain unaffiliated did so because they no longer agreed with the conservative teachings from the church on issues like abortion, homosexuality, the Bible and social justice issues like poverty, war and the death penalty.
America, a Jesuit magazine, argues that the Catholic Church must consider allowing priests to marry: “Silence and fervent prayer for vocations are no longer adequate responses to the priest shortage in the United States.”
More Americans have given up their faith or changed religions because of a gradual spiritual drift than switched because of a disillusionment over their churches’ policies, according to a new study released today which illustrates how personal spiritual attitudes are taking precedence over denominational traditions.