Our Saturday Collection this week zooms back and forth across the country with stories of liturgical revival, parishes breaking ground on new building projects, lay ministries and the ending of a long and fruitfall ministry in Oklahoma.
Yesterday we linked to Ruth Gledhill’s report on the imminent release of the draft legislation that will allow the Church of England to open their episcopate to their women priests. Today the full report has been posted.
There is some reason to believe that that the Ugandan government has quietly moved to kill the notorious “anti-gay” legislation that we’ve covered here on the Lead through the past year.
Bishop John Rabb announced yesterday to the Diocese of Maryland that come this Fall he will retire from the active ministry.
There’s news this week of Episcopal Church groups reaching out to victims of domestic violence, hungry children, people in inadequate housing and people who want to know something more about the history of where they live. Read on for a snapshot of some of the local ministry of the Episcopal Church.
The Rev. Dr. Canon Dean Mercer of Toronto and The Rev. Catherine Sider-Hamilton, a Ph.D candidate at Wycliffe College have called the Anglican Church of Canada to refuse to sign the Anglican Covenant because to do so would be to lie about where the Canadian Church stands.
Bishop Gene Robinson has written an open letter to Pope Benedict the 16th offering some thoughts on the present sexual abuse scandal that has been rocking the Roman Catholic Church of late. He shares the lessons that the Episcopal Church has learned during its struggle to come to grips with the abuse within its own denomination. He also warns of the error of imagining that the abuse of children is somehow the fault of Gay Christians.
During a meeting with Episcopal Church Center staff in New York this week, the Rev. Kesner Ajax, Diocese of Haiti partnership coordinator reported on the progress of the recovery efforts in Haiti.
Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of the newly published Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, in an essay in today’s Washington Post, reflects on the the ways that the Church has understood sexuality and sexual expression over the years. He also writes about the theological ideas that have served to guide that thinking. He argues that because God is Love, the expression of love serves necessarily as an icon of Go
The Reverend Dr. Michael Louis Vono, Rector of St. Paul’s Within the Walls, Rome, Italy has been elected as the next bishop of the Diocese of the Rio Grande (in New Mexico) this afternoon according to online reports.