There’s news today in the Jacksonville Sun of a priest who has been reinstated to the ministry by his Ugandan Anglican bishop. The reinstatement is due to the priest’s “modeling true repentance for a real failure”. The priest was removed for having an inappropriate relationship with a parishioner in his former parish.
All Saint’s Church in Pasadena, one of the largest congregations in the Episcopal Church has announced that, in response to the recent California Supreme Court ruling, they have decided to “treat equally all couple presenting themselves” to be married at the church.
Andrew Gerns is thinking that he sees evidence that there’s a plan unfolding for this summer’s Lambeth conference. But he’s thinking it’s not going to be business as usual, since doing things the “normal” way is what has gotten us to the loggerheads we’re at today.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written to Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi to protest his planned visit to a congregation in the Diocese of Georgia later this week.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to the bishops of the Anglican Communion in a letter just posted to his web site. The letter describes in more detail what his hopes are for this summer’s Lambeth Conference and it lays out his desire that all the bishops who attend are willing in good conscience to participate in the Windsor Process.
An article in the Washington Post examines the reasons we are willing to give to charities and the reasons that we balk. Apparently there is evidence that large gifts are primarily motivated by the self-interest of the giver rather than the need of the recipient.
A group of bishops from across the southern continent of Africa have issued a call for their governments to intervene in Zimbabwe. They have also asked the United Nations dispatch an envoy to help break the political impasse in that country.
The Wall Street Journal reports on an effort by a Scottsdale based conservative advocacy group to create a legal test to the IRS’s interpretation of the limits of political speech within churches.
There seems to have been a small change in the board of directors of the Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD). The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, who joined the board a few years ago, is no longer listed as a member.
At least one critic has claimed that Anglicanism and other forms of Western Christianity in their present form are doomed to fail because they are too tightly bound to the West and its culture. But a recent event in Missouri gives another writer hope.