Bishop Gene Robinson is interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air program today. The interview discusses the events of his life and ministry since his election as Bishop of New Hampshire and the effects the events have had on him and his family.
Today is the first anniversary of the Virginia Tech campus shootings that left 33 students and faculty dead and an entire community traumatized. Scott Russell, the Episcopal Campus Chaplain at the University has written a reflection on the experience.
The Archbishop and the Lama took part in a panel discussion on religion as part of the Compassion event held in Seattle over the past days.
Publisher’s Weekly has an interview with Honor Moore, Bishop Paul Moore’s daughter, whose recent book about her father and family has stirred controversy within the family and within the Episcopal Church and the diocese that Bishop Moore served. The article helps to put Honor’s effort into a fuller context within her own life journey.
There are plenty of anecdotal stories about hostile responses to any attempt to talk about Christian faith on today’s college campuses. There are also stories about how that sort of conversation is gratefully received by students. Which view, hostile or grateful, is right?
An article in the Baltimore Sun this morning reports on clergy in a number of denominations and religions who are beginning to refuse to solemnize weddings between men and women as a form of protest against what the clergy perceive as discrimination by the state in not allowing legal forms of same-gender blessings to be recognized.
Tom Ehrich sees opportunity where others have voiced frustration when looking at the results of the recent Pew survey on Religion and Public Life. If people are seeking and moving from church to church, rather than bemoan the fact, we should be getting prepared for those who are going to be coming.
More information is becoming available about the special convention held over the weekend. An article published this morning highlights a quote by the Presiding Bishop that the actions taken in San Joaquin may be a model for similar situations in other parts of the church.
A group of former Episcopalians in San Joaquin have decided to return to the Episcopal Church after leaving, along with their then congregation, to become part of the Anglican Province of the Souther Cone.
As a part of opening week festivities, Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori announced today that the Episcopal Church has been designated the Official Denomination of Major League Baseball. The move was announced today in a teleconference with reporters.