Bishop Gene Robinson figures that as homosexuality becomes more of a non issue it’s no surprise that the political element known as the Religious Right
The Episcopal diocese, headquartered in Modesto under Bishop Jerry Lamb, filed a lawsuit in 2008 against the the Schofield group. The additional lawsuits, filed this year, were necessary to claim the property of self-incorporated parishes. Monday’s action completes those lawsuits.
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Jesus’ answer was clear, albeit threatening. Love me first, he said. Love your God before all others. Love your neighbor before yourself. Don’t baptize your desired way of life and call it holy . . .
Cecil B DeMille has been there before, of course. As have Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, Mel Gibson, Franco Zeffirelli and Martin Scorsese. So maybe it was only a matter of time before Bollywood not only succumbed to the temptation but went one better by making its version in the subject’s native land.
. . . fidelity is breached long before physical acts occur. How about looking at an ex’s profile pictures and imagining the life you could have had together, the children you could have been raising, the house you could have bought?
“I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.”
I now consider myself far more faithful with at least as strong an understanding of a higher power than anyone who can quote a passage from Deuteronomy, let alone spell it. Running brought me this.
Several presidents claimed no official affiliation with any particular church, although they attended services
An Ecuadoran bishop with links to the Southern Cone Diocese of Recife thinks Zimbabwe Bishop Nolbert Kunonga is just fine. Kunonga is allied with Robert Mugabe, and has used the government to lock faithful Anglicans out of their own churches. Bishop Crespo of Ecuador has been arrested for arms smuggling in the past.