“The archbishop has expressed a keen desire to visit Calcutta, as the city had a rich Anglican connection and used to be the seat of Metropolitan (a centre directly under the archbishop) before 1970. ”
“I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Being my brothers and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me, and I think also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings.”
Christianity is paying an enormous price for its numbers who fixate on the few scriptural passages that address sexual behavior in an ancient, oppressively patriarchal culture. This fixation diminishes Christ’s life. It erodes the moral authority of Christianity, and that in turn, does harm to a wider society that needs all the moral authority it can get.
Among the decisions coming out of those reflections was a unanimous decision to cancel next year’s usual meeting of the Provincial Council and instead dedicate the $40,000 budgeted for it to the organization of an event “that will further God’s mission.”
One congregation in Chitungwiza had just completed building a church in Unit M when two weeks ago police with “orders from above” pounced. They ordered the congregants to leave the church and Bishop Nolbert Kunonga possessed it. Now he has given one of his followers the right to the property.
UPDATE: The Café’s own Torey Lightcap comments
Public debate builds trust. Stitch ups breed cynicism. ~~Bishop Alan Wilson
From the CPG’s 2009 Church Compensation Report, Table 5 (p. 4), full time clergy:
The author of “The Family” and the new book “C Street” visited with Episcopal Café about his research. Conversation ranged from the secretive work of Doug Coe to the potential for genocide in Uganda.
A retired bishop for the diocese of South Carolina recently got his suit wet. Fitz Allison was assisting the caretaker of his plantation in grappling