An Episcopal priest in Somerville was arrested Friday afternoon on charges of repeated indecent assault of one of his child parishioners over a 10-year period, the Middlesex District Attorney’s office said.
As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama reveals the false promise and double standard of integration. – Ta-Nehisi Coates
“We don’t believe God is an angry old man out to get us. Let’s stop behaving as though we did. Recognising gay people are equal means they won’t dilute or spoil marriage but potentially enrich it.” – Bishop Alan Wilson
B005 Substitute essentially changed the question of adoption from something requiring immediate response to a question we could answer at our leisure, when we are ready to do so. We changed the assumption of the game plan. – Mark Harris, Chair of the sub-committee on the Covenant
The heritage of the isles was on display in the London Olympics Opening Ceremony – traditional music like God Save the Queen, the unofficial national anthem Jerusalem, and Cwm Rhondda were each sung by multiracial children’s choirs. Abide with Me was sung by Emeli Sandé.
Among the problems Sherkat identified is the paper’s definition of “lesbian mothers” and “gay fathers”—an aspect that has been the focus of much of the public criticism. A woman could be identified as a “lesbian mother” in the study if she had had a relationship with another woman at any point after having a child, regardless of the brevity of that relationship and whether or not the two women raised the child as a couple.
We deeply respect and appreciate our historical and spiritual relationship with the See of Canterbury. We have written to the Crown Nominations Commission with concerns from the Global South and important principles for consideration as it nominates candidates for the appointment of a new Archbishop of Canterbury.
On the first Sunday after the close of the 77th General Convention what did you hear (or say) either in a sermon, community forum, announcements, or coffee hour — or in receive in written communication from your bishop, rector or diocesan deputation?
Presiding Bishop Lichtenberger laid the cornerstone. Also taking part in the dedication ceremonies was Clifford P. Morehouse, president of the House of Deputies. The contribution of the Diocese of Virginia to the new HQ constituted a memorial to the late Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, the first Presiding Bishop of the Church holding that position without retaining his See. Yesterday deputies at General Convention adopted a resolution permitting future PB’s, from 2015, to remain a diocesan.
The Committee on Structure started General Convention with more than five dozen resolutions on restructuring the Church. By Saturday night, it had one. Almost. After extensive testimony and discussion, Structure is well on its way to presenting one resolution to convention for consideration. – Center Aisle