A new appointment
January 12, 2009
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Mary E. Kostel, chancellor of the Diocese of Washington, has been named the Episcopal Church’s Special Counsel to the Presiding Bishop for Property Litigation and
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Obama asks Gene Robinson to give Inaugural concert invocation
January 12, 2009
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I am writing to tell you that President-Elect Obama and the Inaugural Committee have invited me to give the invocation at the opening event of the Inaugural Week activities, “We are One,” to be held at the Lincoln Memorial, Sunday, January 18, at 2:00 pm.
A gay ordination in Colorado
January 10, 2009
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Ending several years of restraint by the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado in ordaining openly gay and partnered priests, Bishop Robert O’Neill will ordain Mary Catherine Volland, along with three others, to the priesthood at St. John’s Cathedral on Saturday.
Bishops oppose reinstituting death penalty in Maryland
January 10, 2009
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As the Maryland General Assembly prepares to convene on Wednesday, we hope that legislators will decide against the death penalty in Maryland. Doing so would represent an enormous moral failure for the state and for civil society.
A report from the Diocese of Jerusalem on Al Ahli Arab Hospital
January 10, 2009
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Al Ahli Arab Hospital continues to receive and care for many patients each day who are injured, wounded, or burned from the current conflict. Up to 40 new patients are seen each day and many of them require hospital admission and surgery. This increased surgical load places strains on related hospital departments – anesthetics, suture material, operating room linens and equipment, bandages, and surgeons themselves.
Finding a bishop on the Web
January 10, 2009
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The innovative folks in the Diocese of Minnesota are searching for their next bishop via Web site. Candidates are encouraged to apply online before February
Tough times and a turn to God
January 8, 2009
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Parishioners sometimes come up to the Rev. John Perris after Sunday worship and pull him aside.
“I need to have a conversation with you. I have started to cut back,” they’ll say. “Not everybody will tell me that they lost their job,” said Perris, pastor at St. James Episcopal Church on Valley Road. “But whether the economy is awful, or when there are other things happening, people are still coming to church.”
Diocese of Pittsburgh move to regain assets
January 8, 2009
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Updated with a full set of links from Thinking Anglicans. A press release from the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh of the Episcopal Church of the
Opinions on the opinion
January 8, 2009
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They have claimed martyrdom without having suffered. They have claimed sacrifice without giving anything up and dispossession without any loss. They have claimed the past whilst being, very much, a product of their modern, consumerist culture. Now they have the opportunity to test their commitment to the principles they have … tried… to impose on the rest of the Anglican Communion.
How should we respond to the poor?
January 8, 2009
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There will always be people who do not fit into what society terms “normal.” I also know that the kingdom of God has most often been hidden among the “freaks and the misfits.” Today we in polite society would, like both of their families did, try to have Jesus and St. Francis committed and stabilized on medication.
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