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Author: Nicholas Knisely

California prisons respond to change in marriage law

August 29, 2008 No Comments

A few months ago the Supreme Court in the State of California ruled that laws which made same-gender marriages illegal were in violation of the state Constitution’s equal-protection clause. The resulting scramble to change existing regulations has resulted in a few bumps along the way. The state’s Department of Corrections has responded by deciding to now recommend that prison chaplains stop performing any marriages for inmates.

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No rain last night in Denver

August 29, 2008 1 Comment

As a couple of commentators have pointed out, despite a half-serious attempt to call down rain on Barack Obama’s “parade” last night, the sky was

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Hunger in Ethiopia

August 18, 2008 No Comments

Remember the images from the 1980’s of the starving people of Ethiopia, and how those images mobilized a global response? The failed harvests and inadequate food distribution channels still exist in that country. The good news is that we do not expect a repeat of the wide-spread crisis of the 80’s. The bad news is that a state of near starvation has become the new “normal” for Ethiopians.

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Evangelism in action

August 18, 2008 4 Comments

The Rev. Dr. Patrick Malloy, a priest in the Diocese of Bethlehem (PA) writes of what it was like for a number of congregations in that diocese to set up an evangelism event at a regional gathering of GLBT people.

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Mission work in Myanmar

August 18, 2008 No Comments

Katharine Babson is a priest of the Episcopal Church who’s been doing missionary work in Myanmar on and off since 1994. There’s an article published today that describes her ministry and her love for the people among whom she works.

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Pittsburgh timeline

August 18, 2008 No Comments

A priest in the Diocese of Pittsburgh has posted a description and timeline of the process that was followed by a dozen or so conservative clergy in that diocese as they publicly announced that they would be staying within the Episcopal Church.

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“Sole test of Orthodoxy”

August 18, 2008 3 Comments

In the correspondence that was released last week which disclosed the Archbishop of Canterbury’s private opinion on morality of same-sex relationships, there was one small point made by the Archbishop that not many people have noticed.

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Mere Christianity redux?

August 15, 2008 No Comments

Back in the middle of the twentieth century a thin book was published by C.S. Lewis entitled Mere Christianity. The book was an attempt to

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Lambeth ’08 in retrospect

August 15, 2008 No Comments

The lead editorial in the Church Times today provides an excellent overview of what happened at the most recent Lambeth Conference and some context in which to view it.

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