Saturday Collection for 10/16/10
October 16, 2010
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This week’s collection highlights two congregations expanding their ministries and Massachusetts clergy speaking out this election season.
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Religion is killing our most vulnerable youth
October 16, 2010
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Bishop Gene Robinson writes in the Huffington Post about the “bright, straight line” between anti-gay theologies and attitudes and the recent string suicides and anti-gay violence.
Interfaith forum with Presiding Bishop, Dalai Lama & others
October 15, 2010
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will join the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and other world religious leaders in an “Interfaith Summit on Happiness: Understanding and Promoting Happiness in Today’s Society,” at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta this coming Sunday and Monday.
South Carolina convention reconvenes
October 15, 2010
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The Diocese of South Carolina reconvened their convention today and passed canonical changes and constitutional changes (in their first reading) that attempt to separate the Diocese from the Episcopal Church without actually leaving.
Texas bishops advocate ‘Humane Immigration Reform’
October 15, 2010
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Texas religious leaders representing several denominations led a conference of 400 persons on immigration reform and released a document called “Principles of Humane Immigration Reform.”
Council on Foreign Relations hosts Sudanese ecumenical delegation
October 15, 2010
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A group of Sudanese ecumenical leaders met with the Council on Foreign Relations to discuss the upcoming vote for the independence of Southern Sudan.
Bennison witnesses respond
October 15, 2010
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The letter writing in Pennsylvania continues. This week, the witnesses at the trial of Bishop Bennison of Pennsylvania respond to the news that he claims they knowingly perjured themselves.
Assorted links on relationships and sexuality
October 14, 2010
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1. Marriage is down because of the recession? Not. 2. Gays more likely to have multiple partners? Guess again. (Plus other interesting comparisons.)
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