What stories from 2009 concerning The Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion should readers look back on? We asked each of the newshounds at The Lead:
The Queen once said she had an “annus horribilis.” So what would the ABC call the “noughties?” “La Década Perdida?”
It was not going to be a constitution, “and it’s certainly not going to be a penal code for punishing people who don’t comply.”
400 candles representing the light of Christ “makes us feel a part of something larger,” said the Rev. Joseph Hensley
“The church bells are a fabric of this community that has been here for more than 150 years without a problem.”
USA Today offers their readers to vote for the “top religion newsmaker of 2009”. Check it out. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain about who wins.
One wealthy, terminally ill real-estate entrepreneur has told his doctors he is determined to live until the law changes. “Whenever he wakes up,” says his lawyer, “He says: ‘What day is it? Is it Jan. 1 yet?'”
It’s a question driven out of the capacity for empathy, not the self-centeredness of youth: Why was I born where I was born? What fate
Is it wise, I asked, “to put our trust in strangers, or to love our enemies as ourselves? Would we advise our children to do so?” Then came a passage to which my daughter Sarah took great exception: “I cannot embrace this radical faith,” I wrote. “I feel no kinship with those who can cut short a human life without remorse; or with terrorists who target the innocent; or with adults who torment small children for the sexual thrill. I suspect no decent soul does either.”
Over the years you may have encountered snarky comments around the web about our presiding bishop’s pattern of doing embroidery in meetings. Katharine Jefferts Schori