A document on the theology of same-gender union blessings has been posted on the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music’s site. They’re asking people to respond.
Most Episcopalians open their hands and receive the “body of Christ, the bread of heaven” on a weekly basis. But not many of us know much about the actual bread pressed into our palm. It turns out, the for congregations that purchase their wafers rather than make them, the majority of the wafers say something interesting about the Church as a business.
The Primate of the Anglican Church of South Africa has posted an open letter calling on provinces of the Anglican Communion to adopt the Anglican Covenant. The questions to be asked are why now, and who is the audience?
If the generation in question really does find itself proceeding into a morass of increasingly ambiguous ethical and moral decision making (and that’s certainly what it feels like), shouldn’t it want every available tool at its disposal?
The web presence for The Episcopal Church has had a major overhaul today, according to a press release and – well, also according to our plain-old eyeballs.
“[T]he Anglican Communion will avoid, if at all possible, doing something as blatantly stupid as inviting membership from a church already a break-away from a member body.”
You have to wonder how the appropriation of such an in-your-face hard line on religion and overtly Christian imagery will play outside the Midwest.
“The Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
“In the present situation this does not require any change to the powers of the Instruments of Unity or the Standing Committee. What it does require is a committed public defence, by church leaders, of the principle of toleration.”
“They discuss the tough issues she faces after a decade of schism within the church, her plans to reach out to disillusioned Episcopalians, and her desire to create a bigger, broader church.”