Glass, attorney who represents congregations and individual Episcopalians who wish to remain in the Episcopal Church, and another person who requested not to be identified told ENS that Bishop Schofield threatened the personal livelihoods and congregational finances of priests who opposed his efforts to lead the diocese out of the Episcopal Church.
I didn’t meet my first girlfriend on a church pew, but it was kind of similar. The church youth group went on a field trip and we were crowded together in the backseat of the youth leader’s car. I doubt that I would have had the courage to ask her, or anyone, to the Senior Prom if it hadn’t been for that incident.
Even at the very beginning of the 20th Century sermons were often reported in newspapers like “The Times” in extraordinary detail. Soon however the gatekeepers who controlled the new popular press decided that the mass market did not want to be treated to dense reasoning, copious quotations and a Niagara of dependent clauses and qualifications. In consequence, we have all had to learn to some extent or another to be ecclesiastical Ernest Hemingways.
Recent advances in AIDS treatments have lowered concerns about the disease, and AIDS education efforts, whether they emphasized abstinence or condom use, have flagged. Perhaps as a result, teenage sex rates have risen since 2001 and condom use has dropped since 2003. Abortion rates have held steady for a decade, although numbers from 2005 and 2006 are not available.
To believe in an absolute religious truth is to believe that the object of my belief is not vulnerable to the contingencies of human history: God’s mind and character cannot be changed by what happens here in the world. God does not fail because I fail to persuade others or because my community fails to win some kind of power. In plain English, religious violence suggests religious insecurity.
It is important to bring St. Nicholas’ Christmas cheer to New York because of the saint’s historic significance in the city — the first church in Fort Washington was called St. Nicholas and St. Nicholas Avenue is a main thoroughfare. “One of New York’s great hotels was St. Nicholas on Broadway and the Russian Orthodox has its glorious St Nicholas Cathedral on 97th,” he said. “St. Nicholas, of course, is the name of the church destroyed at 9/11, and whose return as a church many eagerly await.”
The concept is simple. Shoppers browse a list of 13 local charities and the services each one can provide for a donation of $10, $25 or $50. Then the shopper makes a donation in the name of a friend or family member, either for one of those amounts or an amount of their choosing. Details about the donation are written on small certificates printed on card stock. The gift-giver tucks the certificate into a holiday card, and the alternative gift is ready for giving.
She stopped answering the door shortly after her estranged husband died in 1990. She turned away from her friends and neighbors in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, ignoring their hellos. So when Ms. Copeman dropped out of sight altogether, people were not immediately suspicious.
“I just feel a tremendous loyalty to this church, and I am confused about this situation,” said Frances R. Maclean, 85, a member of Christ Church (Savannah) for 55 years who saw her children baptized and then married in its century-old chapel. “What is this business about Uganda?”
Last week was busy for the former bishop of Harare. For one thing, the Rt Revd Nolbert Kunonga, reportedly resorted to forgery, in an attempt to block the appointment of Dr Sebastian Bakare as the diocese’s interim Bishop, and to blacken his name. For another, he travelled to Kampala, reportedly in an attempt to ally his breakaway group with the Church of Uganda.