The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming.
Here is our weekly collection plate of a few of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print.
…arrangements as are made for those unable to receive the episcopal ministry of women will need to be by way of delegation from the diocesan bishop rather than vesting.
More and more people around the world from many faith traditions are joining the Charter for Compassion set forth by
Trinity Episcopal School in Austin, Texas has recently installed 135 solar panels on the top of one of its buildings which, along with to the 135 panels put up in Fall 2008, makes for the largest commercial solar installation in Austin.
This week the San Diego Superior Court ruled in favor of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego in a property dispute involving the congregations of
Have human beings stopped evolving or are they evolving faster than ever? Some scientists look into the role that religion plays in evolution.
“Apart from being an intrusion at the very highest levels of one major church into the internal affairs of another, under the guise of being ecumenical, this invitation offers very little that is new,” Bishop Don Harvey, moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada, told the group’s annual synod Thursday morning. Harvey said the Pope’s invitation was neither helpful nor welcome.
Updated The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori met with Moravian leaders and seminarians during a concurrent visit to the Diocese of Bethlehem.