GTS financial plan announced
May 21, 2010
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The Board of Trustees of the General Theological Seminary unanimously approved a plan to bridge the financial plan to continue day-to-day operations.
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Stop making Nazi comparisons
May 14, 2010
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As bad as the law is, to compare Arizona’s tough new immigration law with Nazi Germany is “inappropriate and irresponsible, ” says The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles
UK Greenbelt Festival boycott backfires?
May 14, 2010
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The Greenbelt festival is a music and arts festival for Christians that takes place in the middle of August in the UK. Many Christian groups, musicians, and speakers representing a broad spectrum of Christianity take part. Recently, some evangelicals have been unhappy with their choice of speakers and have begun to boycott the festival. Strangely, when these groups call for a boycott, ticket sales go up.
Wounded Bird on hiatus
May 14, 2010
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June Butler, aka Grandmère Mimi, who keeps the blog “Wounded Bird” is taking a well-earned rest from blogging.
Church and economics, part two
May 8, 2010
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There is a simultaneous glut and shortage of qualified clergy and lay religious professionals. In mainline traditions, there are two ordained persons available for every congregation. At the same time small and/or rural churches have difficultly finding qualified persons to serve their congregations.
Twenty who shaped the Twentieth
May 7, 2010
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The Anglican Examiner is posting a series describing twenty Episcopalians who shaped the United States in the twentieth century.
Four more years
May 7, 2010
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It will be four more years before we see women ordained to the Episcopate in the Church of England, according to a report published today by Ruth Gledhill. The legislation that will be presented to the next General Synod will be released tomorrow.
Testing the waters … or signing up recruits?
May 7, 2010
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The Church Times reports that the Bishop of Richborough, the Rt Rev. Keith Newton, one of the so-called Provincial Episcopal Visitors has been flying about recruiting clergy to sign on to the Ordinariate proposed by the Roman Catholic Church for Anglicans opposed to the ordination of women.
More on the floods in Tennessee
May 7, 2010
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The Tennessean recounts how churches are working to recover from the recent Cumberland River flooding.
Church and economics, part one
May 7, 2010
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It used to be that when times were hard, people turned to God, or at least went to seminary. Not this time. The Christian Century
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