Dr Papyrakis said religious organisations should be prepared to accept and attract a “greying church”, with membership skewed towards the older generation, particularly in countries like the UK where life expectancy is high. Because of this, he suggested more immediate benefits should be promoted by religions.
A Ladies’ Home Journal article in June 1918 said, “The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl.”
Box Turtle Bulletin has gathered together information on the status of the draconian anti-gay bill. A subcommittee of the president’s cabinet has asked the sponsor
Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell;
It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat,
For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.
CANA is going on well, within the obvious limits of funds, facilities and manpower. At the appropriate time issues of additional manpower and the whole range of issues about finance vis-à-vis the desire for additional grouping (emerging “dioceses”) will be discussed. We repeat our appeal to our Lord Bishops to apply restraint in granting preferment to clergy abroad, especially in the USA as it has really made the clergymen there quite unruly. We also repeat the appeal for Bishops to respect CANA as a jurisdiction.
Maybe it’s a glossy attempt to draw people in with the subtle hope that people will be so enchanted with the church and the compliant vicars that they’ll stick around and get acquainted with Christianity.
“Or assume,” she wrote for the minority, “a state wishes to subsidize the ownership of crucifixes” in one of three ways. It could purchase them in bulk and distribute them; it could reimburse buyers with a check; or it could pay with a tax credit. “Now, really — do taxpayers have less reason to complain if the state selects the last of these three options?” Justice Kagan asked
Jude Funding claims a security interest in real property held by the Diocesan Corporation, a two-acre tract in Tarrant County (the Diocesan Center on Alameda Street) and a six-acre tract in Hood County (part of Camp Crucis). The purported liens relate to an alleged note, dated October 13, 2010, from the Diocesan Corporation to Jude Funding in the amount of $3,500,000.
The Church of Norway has established the office of Presiding Bishop, and the first person to hold that position is a woman. She is Bishop Helga Haugland Byfuglien.
Her appointment means that for the first time, the Porvoo Communion will have a primate who is a woman. Meanwhile another member of the Porvoo Communion, the Church of England, has not decided whether women may be bishops.