Bishops absent from House of Lords vote
March 3, 2010
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Dave Walker displays his incisive cartoon skills in this explanation of why only two of the twenty five bishops in the House of Lords voted
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U.S. investment agency considering power of the purse in Uganda
March 3, 2010
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Uganda is not a “threshold partner” of the U.S. government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and that status is unlikely to change if the government’s human
Brief writing completed in Virginia appellate case
March 3, 2010
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“For religious institutions to fulfill their role, they must be permitted to control their own organization; to formulate and enforce their own doctrine; to choose their own structure;…and to adopt their own set of relationships between believer and institution and between hierarchy (if any) and subordinate. If the government assumes control over these matters, then the church loses its independent existence.”
House of Lords votes for same sex marriage in churches
March 2, 2010
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The House of Lords (UK) has voted to allow the use of religious premises and religious language in same-sex partnerships
Made for Goodness
March 2, 2010
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“I speak to audiences across the world and I often get the same questions. ‘Why are you so joyful?’ ‘How do you keep your faith in people when you see so much injustice, oppression and cruelty?’ ‘What makes you so certain that the world is going to get better?’ ~~Tutu
Archbishops and primates traveling
March 2, 2010
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Archbishop Makgoba will travel to Haiti today and Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori will travel to Scotland in June.
Certain and Martindale also nominated for Federal Ministries bishop post
March 2, 2010
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… two more nominees have been added to the list of nominees for Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries, the Very Rev. Richard James Martindale and the Rev. Dr. Robert Certain.
Catholic Charities ends benefits for spouses
March 2, 2010
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Employees at Catholic Charities were told Monday that the social services organization is changing its health coverage to avoid offering benefits to same-sex partners of its workers — the latest fallout from a bitter debate between District officials trying to legalize same-sex marriage and the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.
Gay Presbyterian minister re-instated
March 2, 2010
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A gay clergyperson has been re-instated in the Presbyterian Church. The reinstatement was based on the person’s exercising a “scruples” clause (conscientious objection) to a
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