Richard Dawkins interviews the ABC
May 4, 2010
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Richard Dawkins interviews the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Tennessee flood toll rising
May 4, 2010
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The Tennessean reports that St. George’s Episcopal Church was damaged and some parishioners may have died in the flooding around Nashville:
Bennison case to be heard today
May 4, 2010
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The Court of Review for the Trial of a Bishop will hear a final appeal by Charles Bennison, former bishop of Pennsylvania. He was charged with covering up his brother’s sexual assaults of a teenage girl in the 1970s.
40 years ago: Kent State
May 4, 2010
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On May 4, 1970 a campus protest against the Vietnam War took an ugly turn when National Guard on the scene opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine others.
Imagine a country in which gay bashing gets you no votes
May 3, 2010
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Andrew Sullivan brings news that the Tory party in England is willing to consider “full marriage rights” for gays and lesbians, a development that not only illustrates the difference between British conservatives and their American counterparts, but sheds light on the different landscapes on which progressive members of the Church of England and their counterparts in the Episcopal Church work.
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Your basic, everyday bestselling vampire novelist/senior warden
May 3, 2010
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In a development that will no doubt displease Walter Russell Meade, who may still be venting his spleen over Episcopal Priest Barbie, The New York Times Magazine reveals that Charlaine Harris, author of the bestselling Sookie Stackhouse vampire novels, has served multiple terms as senior warden of her small Episcopal parish in rural Arkansas.
Can prophets be civil?
May 3, 2010
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The issue is not whether there will be broad and ardently held differences of opinion, but how those differences will be expressed. In a time when civility is in collapse, when public discourse is riddled with innuendo or outright assault, the church can model an alternative. Sometimes it does. Too often it does not.
America’s evangelical right still stirring trouble in Uganda
May 3, 2010
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Before arriving here last week, Mr. Engle came out with a statement condemning the harsh penalties proposed in the bill, and said that his ministry could not support it. But when he took the stage late on Sunday afternoon, with Ugandan politicians and pastors looking on, he praised the country’s “courage” and “righteousness” in promoting the bill.
Belgium considers banning the veil
May 3, 2010
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The bill’s supporters, who, alas, are liberals, argue that this is a security measure because people can “hide” behind the veil. Please. Where’s the legislation banning the wearing of Groucho Marx glasses or Richard Nixon masks.
UPDATED: Westminster left out of cunning scheme
May 2, 2010
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“It’s a plot within the Vatican that they are desperate to keep quiet until they are ready to go public.” The Vatican is learning something about its bedfellows. This is a fairly transparent attempt by Anglo Catholics to influence the synod to vote against letting women be bishops. How serious can their threats be if they’re willing to break the pledge of secrecy with the Vatican?
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