Come Saturday, Dante and Nhiahni will marry. People will journey from every corner of Washington to see them exchange vows — wealthy Georgetowners and people who live on the city’s rough edges, all joining hands to celebrate the marriage of two gentle souls whose only address is the steam grates in the shadow of the U.S. Department of the Interior headquarters.
Claiming dioceses are independent in order to secure the right to sign the covenant is like claiming you own my house to secure the right to park on my street. Securing such a modest goal does not require such an ambitious claim.
In an email Seitz said a Colorado priest “will request of [Mark Lawrence, Bishop of South Carolina] as a Communion Partner bishop, a ‘visitation’, the purpose of which is to prevent his parishioners from concluding that the only route for them is joining ACNA (which will be happening in Colorado soon) because their Diocesan is not foregrounding his covenant commitments…
Because the canon for communications in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (that would be me) is a bear of very little brain, it only recently occurred to him to put the movie that the marvellous Hugh Drescher made for us five years ago on You Tube.
At a moment when Warren is expanding his role from megachurch pastor to national and international public figure, his increasing proclivity for sowing controversy is threatening his status as political peacemaker. “He would really like it if everyone would love Rick Warren, and when they don’t, he’s troubled,” says Jeffery Sheler, author of a forthcoming Warren biography.
The Episcopal Sisters of the Community of the Holy Spirit on the upper West Side of New York are transforming their convent into one of the most eco-friendly buildings in New York City.
Last May, Wesley James Queen left death threats on the voice mails of the Rev. Simon Bautista, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington’s Canon for Latino Ministries and other leaders of CASA de Maryland. Yesterday, at a crowded news conference, Queen embraced the people whom he had threatened and apologized.
“We are especially dismayed that this attempt to undermine the Church’s governance involves leaders who have held positions on the Communion-wide body that produced the proposed Anglican Covenant. The various drafts of the Covenant have each created impediments to the full inclusion of all baptized Christians in the Communion and thereby undermine God’s gift of unity. Regrettably, we must now question the full intent of these documents.
“For reasons I will never know (perhaps providential — most likely it is that my initials are the similar as his and thus someone typed in an incorrect email) this morning I received in my email box communication from Bishop D.Bruce MacPherson and a group of his supporters about new documents that are in their final phase of planning that they plan to release soon.”
The paper makes the curious argument that because the dioceses that formed the original Episcopal Church were independent prior to entering into union with each other, they somehow maintain that independence. … One might just as well say that because a couple were single before marriage that they retain their independence afterward.