Sin is not just lifting oneself up too high (as in the case of Satan, the rebellious angels, or Adam and Eve), it is also failing to lift oneself up high enough. Many LGBT people have been taught to hide in the shadows and that God hates us. Is it any wonder, then, that so many LGBT people suffer from a toxic degree of self-hate and shame?
Breaking The Rev. Canon Dr. Jane Alison Shaw has been appointed as the next dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
Episcopal News Service reports that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be visiting the Anglican churches in Australia and New Zealand over the next two weeks.
The Church Times says that the Archbishop’s proposal is a last minute attempt to keep traditionalists inside the Church of England should the Synod vote allow women to become Bishops.
Belgian authorities have raided the headquarters of the Belgian Catholic Church during an investigation into child sex abuse claims. A prosecutors’ spokesman told AFP news agency that prosecutors had “been informed of accusations denouncing abuse of minors committed by a certain number of Church figures”.
The internet and search engines have changed the possibilities for spreading rumors at the same time they opens up the possibility of finding information relevant to clergy search committees. Should a clergy search committee have a no googling policy?
The biggest question is this: If the Anglican Communion is abandoning Anglicanism as we understand it and as it has been understood in the past, why do we want to be involved in the Communion at all? Do we really believe that being a part of the Anglican Communion is advancing Christ’s mission to the world as we understand it? How does that work, exactly?
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was her usual steady self in an interview that touched on the ecological devastation of the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the still-spreading BP oil spill, earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti, relationships in the Anglican Communion, and “mitregate”, which she said was not painful, but was “silly.”
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Lauren Stanley, a priest in the Diocese of Virginia, told ENS that “because of the changing circumstances in Haiti, a request has been made for a different skill set in the position that I held. I am deeply saddened by this, but as I have said from the moment I arrived in Haiti, long before the earthquake, Bishop Duracin is in charge, and I truly believe that we need to let the Haitians be in charge of their own future.”