BBC Two has recently introduced “Rev,” a comedy about a modern Anglican inner-city church. U.S. viewers can’t see full episodes yet, but here are some previews. It looks like most of the humor of these semi-real paradoxes of modern ministry will translate pretty well over here.
Last week’s Gay Pride parade in New York City featured the usual marching of parishioners of St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, but this year’s parade forced congregants to think outside the box after Archbishop Timothy Dolan asked that the church not carry its name on a banner.
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Blogger Richard Floyd’s decades of ministry taught him a thing or two about how the waterbirds of ministry swim, waddle, and peck.
At the Crown Nominations Commission’s last meeting, where Dr John was put on the initial shortlist of candidates for the Southwark job, neither archbishop blocked his name. Liberals make up a majority of the commission and he is considered by many to be the outstanding candidate after a successful period in charge of St Albans cathedral.
The Anglican Archbishop of Southern Africa, the Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, addressed the conflict in the Middle East at a United Nations meeting this week:
Many US churches are reflecting on the the relationship of church and state and celebrating freedom of worship on this weekend where Independence Day falls
The Metro DC chapter of Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays awarded Virginia Theological Seminary with its Faith in Action Award for its twenty-year commitment to the inclusion of homosexual students, faculty, and staff. The award is given to those members of a particular faith or place of worship that have shown commitment and affirmation to the LGBT community.
Simon Sarmiento explains how the Archbishop’s amendment to the Draft Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure, includes the principle of “statutory transfer” which was explicitly voted down by Synod in 2008 and dropped by the revision committee last year.
Two statements about the life and legacy of Justice Thurgood Marshall. One by the Bishop of Washington and another by his son.