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Homeless Veterans

November 9, 2007 No Comments

We will remember Veterans Day this weekend on Sunday. There will most likely be prayers offered in thanksgiving for their service to their country in

Bishop Robinson isn’t the real issue

November 9, 2007 3 Comments

An article in the Concord Monitor claims that the real issue in the Episcopal Church isn’t the election and consecration of an openly gay bishop.

Four British bishops back Duncan

November 9, 2007 1 Comment

Four British bishops have written in support of Bishop Duncan of the Diocese of Pittsburgh and have taken the American Presiding Bishop to task for the tone of her recent letter to him. From the article, the Presiding Bishop’s letter is “‘aggressive, inappropriate, and unfortunate’. ‘They are acting as if it is the OK Corral. This is the North American culture: it is a managerial rather than a pastoral approach.”

A Nigerian response to Akinola

November 9, 2007 No Comments

Davis Mac-Iyalla, the director of Changing Attitude Nigeria, has published a response to the letter published earlier this week by the primate of his church, Archbishop Akinola. Changing Attitude rejects the reasoning put forth in the letter by Akinola as calls on the Church of Nigeria to honor its commitments to the Anglican Communion’s listening process.

“Black Jesus Church”

November 8, 2007 1 Comment

Claudia Mair Burney, writes of her search for a spiritual home and how an Episcopal Church, and the artwork it had on the side of

Topeka Baptist Church must pay 11 million to slain soldier’s family

October 31, 2007 1 Comment

Westboro Baptist Church, known for its website “GodHatesFags”, has been fined for demonstrating at the funeral of a US soldier killed in Iraq. The complainant won on every count against the congregation.

Bishop Bennison inhibited from exercise of ministry

October 31, 2007 No Comments

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on October 31 inhibited Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison from all ordained ministry pending a judgment of the Court for the Trial of a Bishop.

Ontario priest disciplined for marrying same-sex couple

October 29, 2007 1 Comment

A priest in the diocese of Ontario has been disciplined and had his licence to marry cancelled after officiating at the wedding of a same-sex couple last August in a church in rural Ontario, where he is the incumbent.

Arsonist arrested on steps of Grace Cathedral

October 29, 2007 No Comments

A convicted arsonist was arrested on Sunday outside of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco by police following a tip that he was intending to burn

New statistics about the Episcopal Church released

October 29, 2007 1 Comment

Latino and Asian populations are among the fastest-growing in North America, and should become greater priorities for Episcopal Church evangelism, members of Executive Council said October 27 while reviewing church membership and attendance statistics for the year 2006.

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