Mourning a life lost in Uganda
July 26, 2009
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In 1976, the Sabune family lost their idealistic brother to the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin in Uganda. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports how the family
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And that’s the way it was
July 26, 2009
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On May 6, 1974, Cronkite’s newscast featured a segment on gay rights. “Part of the new morality of the ’60s and ’70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality,” Cronkite told his audience. “The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability. They’ve succeeded in winning equal rights under the law in many communities. But in the nation’s biggest city, the fight goes on, with the city council due to vote on the matter again this week.”
Icons of Resolve
July 26, 2009
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From Susan Russell’s blog: “A slide show of members of the Episcopal church, … icons of what this church can and will be as it
Thanking God for the C of E
July 26, 2009
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So why do I, who found the Anglican church so boring as a child that I flounced away at 13 never to go back, and who believes that religion is responsible for some of the biggest disasters in human history and some of the biggest threats to our planet, now love the Church of England? (The traditional Church of England, not its evangelical, Alpha-armed wing.) Why do I love it?
How will your church adjust to demographic realities?
July 26, 2009
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Part of what theological educators have to do is challenge the churches not to become imprisoned by a marketing culture. Otherwise, we will only plant new ministries in communities with middle class and upper middle class constituencies, where people can afford nice buildings and professionally trained ministers. We may even perpetuate the re-segregation of the church into ethnic and racial isolation.
Jim DeLa offers a video wrapup of General Convention
July 25, 2009
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What happened? Jim DeLa explains in six minutes.
Saturday collection 7/25/09
July 25, 2009
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Here is a collection 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.
Changing environmental attitudes and actions
July 25, 2009
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How can your church help make a long term difference to the environment and in the short run help people to simplify their lives?
Blackburn Cathedral offers clean bread
July 25, 2009
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A special container, for the hosts which have been previously consecrated by a male priest, is brought out during Sunday morning services at Blackburn Cathedral if a woman priest is presiding. The cathedral’s canon, Andrew Hindley, defended the arrangement: “It was agreed by all the clergy and cathedral chapter that this was the best way to handle what we call a mixed economy.”
Fort Worth welcomes California decision
July 24, 2009
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UPDATE: Press release from the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin and link to the ruling below. A court in California issued a judgment earlier this
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