Author: John B. Chilton

Parish nurses offer needed ministry

Health is often related to body, mind and spirit, and I think we’re in a unique position as the church where we can look at this as holistic health. In everything we do, we are looking at integrating our faith with our health.

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Krister Stendahl, April 15, 2008

From Harvard Divinity School: It is with immense sadness, but also with immense thankfulness for a singular life wonderfully well-lived, that I write to inform you that Krister Stendahl, our beloved friend, teacher, colleague, and former Dean, died this morning.

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A report from Sudan

While the nation’s comprehensive peace agreement, signed in 2005, provides for freedom of religion for all Sudanese, in reality there are still obstacles. “We have little freedom,” said Bishop Kondo, whose diocese is home to many southern Sudanese who fled to Khartoum during the civil war.

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Church: after Sunday

Several articles have come to our attention about the use of church facilities during the week, including one about Dr. Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, who wants churches to play a larger part in becoming centers for their communities.

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22 priests deposed in Florida

Howard said he was merely making official what the ministers have done by aligning themselves with Anglican bishops. He inhibited, or suspended, the clergy six months before deposing them to give them time to reconsider. “They did not desire to remain in the Episcopal Church and this just makes it official,” Howard said. “Not one of them came to me and said: ‘I want to be an Episcopalian.'”

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Protecting the Anglican soul

The division, however, is not really between conservatives and liberals at all. It is much more serious than that. It is a division between, first, those who are willing to say that other Christians, who have different views or lifestyles to themselves, are still, nevertheless, Christian, and have a Christian integrity that must be part of the Church; and, second, those who think that this simply cannot and must not be the case.

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Olympic protests

The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus, bishop of the Diocese of California, comments on the protests surrounding the Summer Olympics in China and the role

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Prophecy gone missing

Yesterday, The Lead reported that Bishop Duncan of the Diocese of Pittsburgh had received a prophecy from The Rev. Mark Stibbe, Rector of St. Andrew’s,

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