Author: John B. Chilton

Diocese of Haiti instituting business practices

Crosnier de Ballaistre said that “it became very clear that we needed to put in place some procedures and policies” after her office received an invoice for $160,000 for cathedral reconstruction work done by a group of architects. No one at the Episcopal Church Center knew that the work was being done, she said.

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Archbishop of York discharged from hospital

The Archbishop was discharged today from St Thomas’s Hospital in London. He was admitted in the early hours of Thursday morning 26th May. Further examination two days later revealed a ‘nasty appendix’, and an operation was carried out to remove it on Sunday 29 May. There was a resulting infection from the toxins of the appendix.

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Thursday’s links

What if TEC was in a Commonwealth country?; breastfeeding and perceptions; exposure to anger and thinking; the worms of hell; ethics and Challenger; ethics and elevators; carbon tax in Australia; evironmentalists murdered in the Amazon; FRB-Richmond and gay pride

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Is Kenya on the verge of a Gene Robinson moment?

If 80% of the public believe that a supporter of gay rights is qualified to hold the highest judicial office in the land, then which other roles in society can gay people be excluded from? Needless to say, Protestant church leaders on the basis of their “Christian values and beliefs” opposed the nomination.

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Tutu: God is not Christian

“I shay, which ish the other shide of the shtreet?” The pedestrian, somewhat nonplussed, replied, “That side, of course!” The drunk said, “Shtrange. When I wash on that shide, they shaid it wash thish shide.”

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