The Episcopal Church Center, commonly called “815” (its street number on Second Ave in New York City) has announced that it is about to reorganize the way it works and reorient the structure of the various program groups that work directly under the Presiding Bishop.
An Episcopal congregation in Bedford, NY is helping to fund renovations to a Baptist congregation’s building in the same community. The Episcopal congregation not only used endowment income to help support the renovations, but has also become involved in helping to raise the additional funds needed to complete the work.
Ruth Gledhill has published the transcript of an extensive interview given by Bishop Gene Robinson to Andrew Collier a Scottish journalist. In the interview Bishop Robinson discusses the extent of the challenge that full inclusion of gay and lesbian christians poses to the Anglican Communion and some of his own thoughts and experiences as a gay man in ministry in the Episcopal Church.
Earlier this week, the Cafe reported on the meeting taking place in Spain between bishops of the Global South and bishop of the Episcopal Church in the states. Trinity Church on Wall Street in NY underwrote much of the expense of the program and is today featuring news about the results on their website
The BBC is predicting additional rainfall in the hardest-hit regions of Britain. The flooding has claimed at least 4 lives over the week.
The Christian Post has news that Dr. James Dobson, of Focus on the Family has officially renounced Harry Potter and all the associated “Harry Potter products.”
On the lighter side of the news that’s breaking today, an article about a novel way of fund-raising to support mission work in the developing world was published in Christianity Today.
Christopher Sugden writing in the Evangelicals Now August 2007 edition has some thoughts on the effect that a rising tide of globalization will have on Anglicanism.
The Global South Steering Committee has issued a statement at its recent meeting in London. There are 12 points, many of which speak to the concerns of the Steering Committee vis-a-viz the response of the Episcopal Church to the Dromantine Communique issued by the most recent Primate’s meeting. The statement evinces some concern that the Primate’s Steering Committee may decide not to act to expel the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion.
“Trinity Wall Street is convening a group of bishops of the Anglican Provinces in Africa and their companions in the Episcopal Church of the United States for a consultation to strengthen relationships, develop mission partnerships, and to discover new opportunities to bear witness to the Gospel.”