When, and how, should congregations close or merge?
October 28, 2009
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Episcopal candidates on walkabout in Minnesota reflect on using pastoral sensibility at the end of the congregational life cycle.
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Author: Nicholas Knisely
Bishop Adams of Western KS to leave his post
October 25, 2009
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Bishop Adams has been elected and appointed Vicar of a parish in the Diocese of Central Florida. He expects to begin in March 2010.
A shotgun marriage with unintended consequences
October 25, 2009
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There is one killer fact about the pope’s present move. “Traditionalist” Anglicanism is a shotgun marriage between incompatible groups: extreme Anglo-Catholics and extreme evangelicals.
Sunday Social Hour
October 25, 2009
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This week in social networking land, we have a book on Hispanic Ministry, Bono pointing out why he thinks Obama deserved the Nobel, and angry reactions to Uganda’s announcement of tough laws criminalizing homosexuality.
RSVP – Regrets Only
October 25, 2009
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An invitation from the Vatican invites one blogger’s response, to issue a similar invitation from The Episcopal Church.
Tastes great. Fewer Trappists.
October 23, 2009
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It came as a surprise to discover that monks were no longer involved in the beer-making at Trappist brewer Westmalle during a visit to research for a feature of Trappist beers.
You’ve got mail
October 22, 2009
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You’ve worked hard at your faith and always played by the rules. But lately you haven’t been happy with certain developments. Maybe you’re even on the fence about your religion. Sometimes you drive past a Catholic church and wonder, “What goes on in there?”
What is a “former Anglican”?
October 22, 2009
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Does the CDF regard Anglicans who enter into full Communion with the Catholic Church as having ceased to be Anglican (and hence as having become “former Anglicans”)? If so, then what can it possibly mean to “maintain an Anglican identity when entering the Catholic Church”?
The Cafe Newsteam blogs the Vatican announcement
October 22, 2009
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You may have noticed the story which supplanted the “balloon boy” as this week’s “holy cow!” news event: the Vatican has announced a process to receive en masse disaffected Anglicans around the world into the Roman Catholic Church…here are some of the newsteam’s reactions
Diana Butler Bass: Tell me something I don’t know
October 22, 2009
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This week, the Vatican announced that it would make it easier for conservative Anglicans and Episcopalians–those uncomfortable with women priests and accepting gay people–to join the Roman Catholic Church. . .Reporters, however, have missed something important . . .
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