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In Diocese of Dallas tougher rules instituted for stockbroker-priests

September 5, 2009 No Comments

Diocesan leaders are now weighing whether to also suspend the Rev. Raymond Jennison. He runs First Canterbury Securities, a northeast Dallas firm where Warnky worked, and is priest in charge of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Garland. Another former member of Warnky’s parish told diocesan officials this week that Jennison mistreated her when she complained to him, in late 2007, about Warnky.

Saturday collection 9/5/09

September 5, 2009 No Comments

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.

ACI says: we write the rules

September 5, 2009 1 Comment

The three unhappy priests who couldn’t keep control of the domain name of their own Web site, who offered the Anglican Communion the writings of a veterinarian as an expert on human sexuality, and who mistakenly send their emails to all and sundry are once again drawing on their deep reservoirs of competence to tell the rest of the Anglican Communion how it must run its affairs.

Diocese of Fort Worth files for property

September 4, 2009 3 Comments

The defendants are former members of the Diocesan Corporations board of trustees and the former bishop of the diocese, all of whom have left the Episcopal Church and its Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth but continue to control significant Episcopal Church assets.

Gay marriage IS a defense of marriage act

September 4, 2009 5 Comments

Susan Russell, President of Integrity

Separating healthcare debate wheat from chaff

September 4, 2009 No Comments

How does a Christian sort out the wheat from the chaff in the current health care reform debate? And where is the theological reflection as to the meaning of health care?

The meaning of Matthew

September 4, 2009 No Comments

Kate Daily at Newsweek reviews Judy Shepard’s memoir The Meaning of Matthew.

Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living

September 3, 2009 No Comments

The same secularism that forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr., was a preacher, forgets that Mother Jones was driven from Chicago to the mines in part by the encouragement of her brother, a priest. Although it is slightly anachronistic to put it this way, she stands at the head of the great Catholic Workers’ movement in this country. Nonethless Dorothy Day considered herself Mother Jones’ disciple.

Fun with demographics

September 3, 2009 1 Comment

The Friends of Jake are featuring a couple of interesting charts about levels of education among members of various religious groups, and how education influences the acceptance of gays and lesbians.

Connecting digitally during the Eucharist

September 3, 2009 2 Comments

While some preachers may frown upon the use of cell phones and laptops in church on Sundays, one Katy, TX area pastor is encouraging people to keep their wireless devises on so they connect through the Internet and social networking sites during a new service.

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