If cultural conservatism continues to treat same-sex couples as outside the social covenant, the currents of history will flow right around it. – Jonathan Rauch, National Journal
Now that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has slapped my church’s wrists for refusing to marginalize gays and has threatened to have us become second-class citizens in the Anglican Communion, I say this to Archbishop Williams: The Episcopal Church has a life. – Tom Ehrich
The Lead has learned via email that The Rev. Dr. Marion Hatchett, one of the preeminent liturgical scholars in the Episcopal Church died last night
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.
If the Church of England can reinterpret its principles on sex before marriage so easily, is not a serious rethink on its attitude towards gay and lesbian people called for?
Douglas Stevenson, Director of the Center for Seafarers’ Rights at the Seamen’s Church Institute, is on board the Maersk Idaho and sailing through “Pirate Alley”, that is, the Gulf of Aiden. He departed Cairo on Sunday, August 2, and will arrive in Dubai on August 10th.
Tomorrow, people in Alabama will walk the path that seminarian Jonathan Myrick Daniels walked before he was murdered on August 20, 1965. Daniels was a Freedom Rider who went to Alabama to register African-American voters and took part in the march from Selma to Montgomery.
Based on one blog entry by one American priest, Jonathan Wynne-Jones says that Americans are “planning” to “plant” Episcopal Churches in England.
A Roman Catholic priest who was kicked out of his California parish because he supported marriage equality visited All Saints, Pasadena, and reflects on his experience.
The Guardian asks: After Rowan’s long letter about the “futures” of Anglicanism, after all the meetings, resolutions, papers and blogs, “”what difference will any of this make?” They asked four Anglicans, two English, one African and one American, for answers.