We covered the demonstration following rejection of any official accommodation of conscience for clergy and laity in the Methodist Church who are supporters of marriage
Bishop George Packard, arrested during the occupation of Zuccotti park last December, was arrested again over the weekend at the Vietnam Veteran’s memorial in New
What happens when the religious leader in a community loses their belief in God? For some it’s a secret they hide. For others it means the end of their vocation. For some it’s a temporary thing. And for some it’s become a reason to seek support from others in a similar state.
To look at the way religious views form public opinion here in the United States, it seems pretty clear that conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics
The Rev. Peter Wallace took part in an anti-racism workshop in Atlanta recently. Most of the leadership of the Episcopal Church have done this. But Peter had an experience leaving the building that afternoon that forced him to put his new insights to work much sooner than he expected.
Taking a cue from a presentation given to his diocese earlier this year that “Eisenhower is dead”, meaning that the centralized, corporate, model for church government that came to full bloom in the 1950’s is no longer useful, he is suggesting that the bicameral structure of General Convention, created during the time of the first Presiding Bishop needs to be discarded.
Over the weekend, the Methodist General Conference has unexpectedly defeated all proposed restructuring plans, including a hastily constructed “Plan B”. One of the Methodist bishops claimed that this defeat happened because the “wrong people” were voting.
Three Episcopal bishops in North Carolina have released a joint letter in opposition to a state constitutional amendment that would define marriage as existing only “between one man and one woman” and would effectively outlaw other forms of domestic partnership within the state.
The Anglican provinces that aligned themselves as part of the GAFCON movement, now described as FOCA (Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans), are meeting in England at
With the final stages of this year’s presidential election starting in earnest, Clay Farris Naff sees a profound reason to be concerned in the way