A Peter Selby review
October 14, 2009
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Bishop Peter Selby’s rejection of the Anglican Covenant has struck a very resonant chord. Thinking Anglicans has a roundup of reactions.
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As court-mandated date for taking over the church approached grounds fell into disarray
October 14, 2009
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A day after it gained control of St. Luke’s of the Mountains Church, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles Tuesday in initiated a major property makeover.
Virginia Supreme Court takes appeal
October 14, 2009
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The Court notified diocesan attorneys this morning that it has granted the petition for appeal of the Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church on all assignments of error. This means that the Court agreed to review every issue raised for appeal by the Diocese and the Episcopal Church without oral argument.
C of E dabbles in the market
October 14, 2009
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Here’s two items from the Wall Street Journal on the Church of England’s play in the Manhattan apartment market and its defense of hedge funds.
Fighting poverty with faith
October 14, 2009
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National faith-based organizations are committed to participating in an interfaith week of action, October 14th-21st, 2009 in order to urge our elected officials to make poverty-reduction a key goal of the transition to a new green economy. The organizations include Catholic Charities USA, The Episcopal Church, the ELCA, the Islamic Society of North America, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
Restored organ comes with familiar family name attached
October 13, 2009
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Members of the Pierce family – including actor David Hyde Pierce – dedicated a newly refurbished organ at Bethesda Episcopal Church in Saratoga Springs, New York, this past weekend.
Bishop Andrus in and out of hospital
October 13, 2009
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During a 15-hour stay in the emergency department at UCSF it was determined that a blood clot had broken away from veins in my lower left calf and made its way into my lungs – I had an extensive pulmonary embolism, with one large clot in the pulmonary artery, and smaller ones branching out through the lungs.
Proof texting for the death penalty
October 13, 2009
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One juror had read aloud from the Bible to a group of fellow jurors, including the passage, “And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.”
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