John B. Chilton – Page 193

Virginia property cases in court on Friday

August 8, 2007 1 Comment

“On Friday, August 10, The Diocese of Virginia and The Episcopal Church will appear in Fairfax Circuit Court to defend our claim to Episcopal Church property against non-Episcopal groups that are trying to appropriate our churches for their own uses. Later, in November, the court will hear arguments on the lawsuits, styled as petitions, filed by the Nigerian congregations that started this dispute. The Diocese and The Episcopal Church are named as defendants in that action.”

Evangelicals warm to environmentalists

August 8, 2007 No Comments

The Washington Post this morning gives prominent coverage to the teamwork between US evangelicals and Anglican bishops in the UK. Their common interest: the environment.

The new face of evangelicals

August 8, 2007 2 Comments

Mark I. Pinsky writing in USA Today, “This is more than what Freud called “the narcissism of small differences.” The emerging face and voice of American evangelicalism is that of a pragmatic, politically sophisticated, pastor of a middle class megachurch.”

Is it racist to use of credit scores to price auto insurance?

August 1, 2007 No Comments

The Federal Trade Commission has recently completed a study of the practice of using credit ratings to price auto insurance, a practice several states forbid

Bishop Smith reports from Spain

August 1, 2007 1 Comment

“One thing became especially clear to me. Our African brothers and sisters want us to come and see them! When I suggested in one meeting that the money spent on plane tickets might be better spent on funding various projects, I was quickly reminded that ‘God created people before God created money,'” writes Smith.

What the bookkeeper saw

August 1, 2007 No Comments

Monday he was praised as a “great leader” by The Right Rev. Bob Duncan, Moderator of the Anglican Communion Network. Tuesday an Ecclesiastical Court in

Radner: “Duncan starting a new church”

August 1, 2007 2 Comments

Radner: “The recent statements by the Moderator of the Network, Robert Duncan so contradict my sense of calling within this part of Christ’s Body, the Anglican Communion, that I have no choice but to disassociate myself from this group.”

Opening day of the Network’s Annual Council

July 30, 2007 1 Comment

In his address Bishop Duncan said, “the Network Bishops have agreed to take part in the upcoming meeting [of the House of Bishops] with the Archbishop of Canterbury…. We do so … without any without any expectation that the Episcopal House of Bishops will turn from the course so unequivocally embraced at their March meeting.”

A bishop’s forecast of number of English bishops attending Lambeth

July 26, 2007 No Comments

While he thought 6 in 10 might be considering not attending, Bishop Scott-Joynt added that such bishops would feel “constrained” by their loyalty to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

More of the interview with Sentamu

July 25, 2007 No Comments

“We need to rediscover the greatest story tellers and I have to say, as a Christian, that Jesus was an unbelievable story teller. He had the ability of simplifying and then exaggerating and that is what actually happens in Harry Potter. I don’t go in for magic, but mystery for me is that which remains when explanation, logic, reasoning have all been exhausted.”

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Author: John B. Chilton