Weddings for a fee?
June 20, 2010
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Wedding season is here, and whether it’s called giving a tip or giving a stipend or making a donation, most couples expect to offer a gift to the clergy.
The Archive
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Sunday Social Hour
June 20, 2010
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Our weekly social media recap includes a Facebook page for people in other provinces who support the Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion, an observation about effective advertising using social media, and a Father’s Day observation on Twitter from Matthew Paul Turner.
Mpho Tutu: Why I am proud of my father
June 20, 2010
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My heart remembers how important it was to be important enough to make my dad pause and listen. I remember feeling myself grow 10 inches taller as I saw my father pause for intrigued thought before he could respond to my comments and queries.
“Disappointment”: Maggi Dawn reports on reactions to “Mitregate”
June 19, 2010
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Maggi Dawn, a well respected theologian, educator and CoE priest writes that her email box has had a “stream of comments” from women in the church who are “disappointed and dismayed” by the events of “Mitregate”.
Saturday Collection June 19, 2010
June 19, 2010
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If there’s a theme this week to our Saturday collection of parish news, it’s one of prayer in response to violence.
If we are to be an international church, then why not go Roman?
June 19, 2010
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If the Anglican Communion decides to take on an international identity rather than being a family of independent national churches, then there’s an implication that not many people have recognized.
Moravian’s vote moves toward full communion
June 19, 2010
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The Northern Province of the Moravian Church, which represents the northern half of the full body of Moravians in the United States voted last night to approve the full communion agreement that the Episcopal Church approved last summer in Anaheim.
Ecumenical dialogs at the point of collapse? Really?
June 18, 2010
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Canon Kearon explained the removal of Episcopalians from the Anglican Communion ecumenical dialogs as being due in part to the collapsing of the dialogs. Yet Bishop Chris Epting points out that the Episcopal Church is in full and lively conversations with a number of ecumenical partners, including in parallel with some that are in conversations with the larger Communion.
Gay Jennings and Ian Douglas elected to ACC
June 18, 2010
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Executive Council finished its meeting today and has issued a report detailing what happened, and what decisions were made. It also reports that Bishop Douglas and The Rev. Gay Jennings were elected to fill vacant seats on the Anglican Consultative Council.
ENS report on Kearon – Executive Council session
June 18, 2010
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Jefferts Schori asked the council to vote on Kearon’s request that the session be closed to all but council members. His request was decisively rejected by a show of hands. Bruce Garner of Atlanta told ENS afterwards that he had “never witnessed so much obfuscation in such a short period of time” in his entire life. “We were polite,” he said, “but we asked him questions he could not or would not provide answers to.”
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