Congregations are leaving the Lutheran Church as a result of decisions made at General Synod this summer. But apparently the numbers represent a smallish portion of the total, and are roughly proportional to the Episcopal Chruch’s experience.
Later today in California oral arguments begin in the case challenging that state’s ability to deny same-sex marriage to its citizens. Ted Olson, a conservative republican, is the lead attorney in favor of restoring their right. Why? He explains his reasons in Newsweek.
There have been some questions raised in the blogsphere in the past month about whether or not there is some sort of hidden structure to the Anglican Communion hinted at in some of its documents. The short answer? “No.”
The folks from Wesboro Baptist traveled to New Hampshire over the weekend to protest against the state’s new same-sex marriage law. They protested at a high school, the city hall in Concord and the offices of the Episcopal Diocese.
The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada as well as the Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have sent a statement conveying a ‘deep sense of alarm’ over Uganda’s proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
It was not going to be a constitution, “and it’s certainly not going to be a penal code for punishing people who don’t comply.”
400 candles representing the light of Christ “makes us feel a part of something larger,” said the Rev. Joseph Hensley
“The church bells are a fabric of this community that has been here for more than 150 years without a problem.”
USA Today offers their readers to vote for the “top religion newsmaker of 2009”. Check it out. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about who wins.
David Dark has seen into something emerging out of popular culture – the end of this age of bitter irony.