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LA suffragan candidates live on the Web today

November 21, 2009 1 Comment

Susan Russell informs us that there is a live Web cast of a question and answer session with candidates for the two bishop suffragan openings

Outside a world of wealth stands the reality of hunger

November 21, 2009 1 Comment

Whatever the weather, they await the opening of a food pantry run by All Saints Episcopal Church, right across the street from a seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 6,000-square-foot home with a wraparound porch, a two-bedroom coach house, gated private driveway and what refined members of the propertied class know as a porte-cochere.

Breaking: Executive Council to discuss Ugandan situation

November 20, 2009 4 Comments

A special session of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has been called to discuss the church’s position on the “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” currently before the Ugandan Parliament. The meeting will be conducted via conference call on the afternoon of December 7, according to numerous sources.

Chicago Consultation asks PB, ABC to oppose anti-gay bill in Uganda

November 20, 2009 4 Comments

The Chicago Consultation today asked the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; Dr. Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies; and the Most Rev. Henry Luke Orombi, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda, to speak out against draconian anti-gay legislation introduced in the Ugandan Parliament last month.

Canada speaks while others are silent

November 18, 2009 2 Comments

The Anglican Church of Canada is, to our knowledge, the first province of the Anglican Communion to express its opposition to draconian anti-gay law under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament. The provincial secretary of the Church of Uganda has expressed support for the legislation, while suggesting that executing people for having sex was perhaps going a bit far.

How the U. S. right promotes homophobia in Africa

November 18, 2009 No Comments

Sexual minorities in Africa have become collateral damage to our domestic conflicts and culture wars as U.S. conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay pastors and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans in their American fight, a groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA) discovered.

Come for Christmas, an advertisement with an edge

November 18, 2009 7 Comments

If you are in a room with 99 other randomly selected people, you are the Episcopalian. To double the size of the church, you need to lead one other person out of that room with you. Is the best strategy to offer a generalized message aimed at appealing, if mildly, to as many people as possible? Or is it better to differentiate yourself as clearly as possible from other churches?

Homosexuality no factor in abusive priests

November 18, 2009 6 Comments

AP reports: A preliminary report commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops to investigate the clergy sex abuse scandal has found no evidence that gay priests are more likely than heterosexual clergy to molest children, the lead authors of the study said Tuesday.

Seminary of the Southwest to cut 12 staff positions

November 18, 2009 5 Comments

Twelve staff positions will be cut as the Seminary of the Southwest attempts to trim $1 million from its operating budget. A source close to those in the restructuring effort said no faculty members are losing their jobs, and the curriculum would not be affected.

God is a capitalist, bankers claim

November 8, 2009 7 Comments

Varley joins Goldman Sachs International adviser Brian Griffiths and Lazard International Chairman Ken Costa as London bankers who’ve gone into London churches in recent weeks and invoked Christianity to defend a banking system that critics say has created wealth and inequality in the U.K.

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