Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies has sent a letter to members of that body detailing her plans going forward after the 2009 General Convention in Anaheim.
The Presiding Bishop visited the Diocese of Central PA over the weekend. Judging from the press coverage it was quite the event.
A Florida “mega-church” has decided to remove all Pepsi vending machines from its campus and replace them with ones serving Coca-Cola. The change is due to Pepsi’s perceived support for LGBT rights and legal recognition of same-sex marriage.
A German Roman Catholic bishop preached on the lessons his denomination should be trying to learn from Martin Luther. In his remarks he points out how Luther’s 95 theses were meant to reform not divide the church.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is recuperating at home after recently suffering from a slipped disc, his office said on Thursday.
Asked to frame his perspective on The Episcopal Church’s place in the Anglican Communion, Bishop-elect Scott Benhase says, “God will ask us to wade deep into troubled waters with both friend and stranger.”
Sara Maitland’s interior journey into silence is less a retreat and more a full-scale attack on the senses.
Just 19% of congregations described their financial health as “excellent”; and signs of vitality such as mission awareness and worship attendance have slipped in the past eight years.
We’re kicking our social media spaces in Facebook and Twitter up a notch through the use of hash-tags and wall posts in a new Sunday feature that will run midday most weekends. But it’s up to you, our readers, to populate it, by posting to our Facebook page or using the #ecafe hash-tag on Twitter.
John Hodgman’s “Welcoming Remarks” declares the urgent need for human sensibility, contact, and compassion, and it calls gently upon artists to make sense of the world’s suffering – if not now, then perhaps in time.