Category: The Lead

The Family’s role in the Ugandan anti-gay bill

You follow that U.S. money. You look at their archives. So that’s how working with some research colleagues we discovered that David Bahati, the MP behind this legislation, is really deeply involved in The Family’s work in Uganda, that the ethics minister of Uganda, President Museveni’s kind of right hand man, is also helping to organize The Family’s Ugandan National Prayer Breakfast.

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What would Jesus eat?

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the Daily Mail UK, reports on various Christian diet groups and plans. Christian Weigh Down, Thin Within, and Fit for

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Brazil responds to the Anglican Covenant: observations and doubts

We note that there has never been a normative statement of faith binding each of the national churches in the Anglican Communion, nor a central source of authority, but a dispersed authority according to the 1930 Lambeth Conference report and the encyclical signed by the bishops attending that Conference,…

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Executive Council to meet on Ugandan legislation

A teleconference meeting of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council will take place on Dec. 7 to discuss a possible statement on Ugandan legislation that would imprison for life or execute people who violate that country’s anti-homosexuality laws.

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New ways to sign in to Episcopal Cafe´

Over the weekend TypePad rolled out a change to the way people can login to the Café to leave a comment. It used to be that to login you needed to create a TypePad account. But in these latter days, TypePad has now seen the logic of allowing people to authenticate their identity using their existing accounts on other services.

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UK laws allowing discrimination ordered to be redrafted

Under the present law of the United Kingdom, religious organizations are given a very broad ability to not hire people because of their sexual orientation. Apparently too broad, at least according to a European Commission ruling with regard to an EU directive.

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The Episcopal Church pushes back

Over the weekend Dr. Chuck Robertson, the Presiding Bishop’s Canon, had an op-ed piece published in a Fort Worth newspaper. That, in of itself, isn’t particularly remarkable. But the tone of his piece is.

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