Category: The Lead

Foot washing on the green

About 100 people came to an ecumenical worship service on the green in New Haven, Connecticut, where people’s feet ceremonially washed and free foot care was offered by local podiatrist and student nurses.

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RIP Edward George Harris

The Very Rev. Edward George Harris, last Dean of Philadelphia Divinity School (1961-1974) and first co-Dean of Episcopal Divinity School died at 8:00 am on Palm Sunday, in Pennsylvania.

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Easter message from Cape Town

This year, the enormity of the claims of Easter have struck me in a deeper way. In early March I spent five days in Haiti, almost overwhelmed by the scale of the tragedy brought about by January’s earthquake.

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Update on General Seminary financial crisis

“The students are anxious that they will graduate. Obviously staff are anxious about jobs and faculty are anxious about their positions. I think they’re a little over-anxious,” Ewing said. “The chair tried to assure them that we will be here. We think we see the money. Given all the things I’ve dealt with here, this not does feel as big a problem as several of the ones we have dealt with. Part of what makes a bigger problem is that nobody knows what the leadership will be and that makes everybody nervous — and I am not sure, either.”

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