The 17th is William White’s feast day. The Rev. Timothy B. Safford’s homage to William White shows us that when times required, White could be something other than timid or gentle
God has returned to Europe. So reports The Wall Street Journal. The question is, why? The WSJ offers up the supply-side theory, and the facts appear to fit.
The group’s response for the October Executive Council session is meant to meet the January 1 comment deadline “so that the voice of our Church will be heard in this process.”
Has your church assessed the costs and benefits of VBS-in-a-box?
A national survey of about 2,500 religious leaders showed that 76 percent were either overweight or obese. Forty percent said they were depressed at times, or worn out “some or most of the time.”
The governing body of St. Luke’s of the Mountains Anglican Church voted unanimously on Monday to appeal a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruling that the La Crescenta church’s property belongs to the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
The Episcopal bishop of Arizona, the Rt. Rev. Kirk Stevan Smith, was surprised. “I don’t know what would cause him to say this at this time.” Smith pointed out that Catholics and Episcopalians in the community work together frequently.
On this day in 1533, Pope Clement VII excommunicates …
Zachariah Jok Char was only five years old when he walked 1,000 miles for the first time. One of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, he braved the desert heat and attacks by lions and hyenas, without shelter, food, water or adult protection.
Some clerics said that the removal of 10 Downing Street from the process of choosing bishops and deans could further concentrate power in the hands of a few senior prelates. If the church is not established should the polity be one where the laity and clergy have a large voice in the election of bishops and the provincial bishop as in the American model?