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Anglican District of Virginia files motion of appeal

July 12, 2010 4 Comments

ADV wants to now claim that it is significant that at some point in time congregations that were part of the provincial boundary crossing operations of the Province of Uganda became members of ADV, and under some horticultural purity law that means the nine congregations that affiliated initially only with the Church of Nigeria cannot be considered on a branch descended from the Church of Nigeria.

Vatican: ordaining women as great a sin as raping children

July 12, 2010 4 Comments

New rules the Vatican is expected to issue soon on penalties for priests who sexually abuse children will also put the ordaining of women in the same category of the most serious crimes under church law.

Why worship must change to be effective

July 12, 2010 19 Comments

The church has to adapt its worship because our culture doesn’t recognize the value of worship when done as it was in generations past. Each generation is different in what it resonates with because over time the culture changes. The result is that worship rooted in previous generations loses its power to connect with each succeeding generation.

Women bishops measure passes intact

July 12, 2010 3 Comments

The BBC’s summary begins: The Church of England’s ruling synod has decided that women bishops should be created. The synod has given minimal concessions to

To really engage that atheist, demonstrate ap(p)titude

July 11, 2010 3 Comments

It seems almost predestined that at some point the makers of iPhone applications would pick up on atheists going head-to-head with believers.

Interest groups react to vote on archbishops’ female-bishops scheme

July 11, 2010 6 Comments

A quick roundup of various groups’ responses to the news yesterday, and to each other, that a policy-softening amendment on female bishops failed to pass Synod in the CoE.

Fifty years on, influence of ‘Mockingbird’ remains strong

July 11, 2010 No Comments

Today is the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Harper Lee’s novel. It spoke in fine moral tones about racism with utter clarity, and it’s never been out of print.

Northwestern Pennsylvania’s Bp. Rowe seeks healing in Bp. Davis abuse case

July 11, 2010 4 Comments

The Episcopal bishop of the Erie-based Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania is reaching out to women who may have been sexually abused in their childhoods by one of his deceased predecessors, asking them to contact him confidentially as part of his effort to “seek healing and reconciliation for those who have been harmed.”

Nerva Cot Aguilera, suffragan bishop of Cuba, dead at 71