The church was founded in 1981 after a split with the mainline Presbyterian Church over the denomination’s increasingly liberal direction. The EPC started with just 12 churches. In the years since then, it has grown to include 188 congregations and 75,000 members.
1930 – Women allowed to vote at parish meetings. 1931 – Constitutional amendment of the diocese restores voice and vote to all resident African-American clergy.
In Tuesday’s hearing the judge said that before the appellate court’s detailed, 77-page ruling, he had been leaning toward a decision for St. Luke’s but after the appellate ruling, he was obliged to defer to the higher court and its analysis of church property precedents in California and elsewhere.
Gordon Brown: Establishment does not, however, justify the Prime Minister influencing senior church appointments, including bishops.
The California Court of Appeal’s decision essentially has tied the trial court’s hands, and an eventual judgment in favor of the Diocese is inevitable.
We feel that the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury are tantamount to a threat, and we cannot accept this.
“The humility to re-examine our certainties will begin the prophetic re-telling of those tales,” the Presiding Bishop added in her homily.
Gospel songs thundered through the speakers as televangelist Benny Hinn landed outside Uganda’s national stadium last month in an immaculate white helicopter, before addressing 40,000 enraptured faithful.
See inside for a roundup on yesterday’s court decision favoring the Diocese of Los Angeles.
For much of the 20th century the mainline fertility by age cohort was just over two, barely enough for zero growth. In contrast, conservative fertility in the early part of the century was almost one more child per woman; more recently it remains above but is nearly equal to mainline fertility.