You know how some cowardly muggers target little old ladies because they’re usually slow, frail and unlikely to fight back? Well, the exact same dynamic, though in intellectual rather than bag-grabbing terms, can be seen in the radical-atheist assaults on Mother Teresa.
From Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal’s address to the diocesan convention: Finally, after much prayer and consultation, I have decided that the time has come for
Bob Duncan sure gets a lot of attention for a guy who has spent millions of dollars and lost his shirt in a significant court case en route to prying a whopping three percent of Episcopalians into this new anti-gay church.
The past few days 77 participants from 13 African countries met for the first time ever to dialogue about the issue of sexual orientation from a Christian faith perspective. The participants included clergy (pastors, Bishops, National Church Council leadership and Academics) and an equal number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and intersexed (LGBTI) people, of whom a few were also clergy.
Here is our weekly look at just some of the good stuff going on in The Episcopal Church.
From the Episcopal Public Policy Network: Health care costs have been sky rocketing. Many people don’t have access to insurance affordable or not. The Episcopal
On December 11, I will be leaving my position as canon for communications and advancement for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington to form Canticle Communications, a strategic communications partnership that will work primarily with church clients. My partner is Rebecca Wilson, whose work Café readers may remember from this summer’ s General Convention.
The Diocese’s previous bishop search ended in July when its election of the Rev. Dr. Kevin Thew Forrester did not receive the required consents from diocesan bishops and standing committees in the Episcopal Church.
Kapya Kaoma, an Anglican priest from Zambia who just completed a report for Political Research Associates on the influence of U.S. evangelicals on African gay politics calls on Rick Warren to denounce the antigay legislation proposed in Uganda and challenge his friends like Archbishop Henry Orombi and Pastor Martin Sempa who are leading the charge.
Barbi Click explains that she had to leave Jack Iker’s diocese to follow her vocation: “Joy and sadness blend to a point that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. I know I feel joy that the Diocese of Fort Worth is about to ordain its first woman priest. Sadly, I will not be able to be a part of the celebration.”