Major newspapers and TV outlets across the country are covering the announcements over the weekend that the Diocese of Minnesota and the Diocese of Los Angeles are including partnered gay and lesbian candidates among their nominees for their upcoming bishop elections.
The Presiding Bishop sent a letter the bishops of the Episcopal Church late last weekend, summing up conversations held during General Convention and with her Council of Advice. In the letter she discusses the strategy that is governing the way the Episcopal Church responds to legal challenges regarding diocesan and parish property.
There are a couple of pieces in the Guardian today asking about why the idea of schism in the Anglican Communion is too awful to conceive, or if it did happen, what the practical consequences would be.
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has posted news of the nominees for the election of two bishops suffragan:
The Times-Picayune reports: Thirteen students of All Souls Episcopal Church and Community Center music programs will perform a concert Friday at 6:30 p.m., in the
Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul Yak was interviewed Thursday at the US Holocaust Museum about the role of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan in peacemaking
It isn’t breaching the wall of separation between church and state to observe that evolving attitudes within a religious group, regardless of their theological aspects, often parallel views of right conduct and belief in the wider society.
“Our results suggest that postmodernism, rather than science, is the bête noir — the strongest antagonist — of religiosity.”
In Malawi there are two new bishops. In Upper Shire Diocese the elected candidate is the Revd Fr Leslie Mtekateka. In Lake Malawi Diocese, the Venerable Francis Kaulanda was elected.
“Even though Williams explicitly says this is not a first-class, second-class division, it feels that way.”