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Updated. The 14th meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Kingston, Jamaica tomorrow and ends on May 13th.
One of our favorite blogging bishops, the Rt. Rev. Alan Wilson, describes the Diocese of Oxford’s Social Media Day which he recently chaired. He says that “the aim was to gather people working for the Church with an interest in communications, to scope the scene and its possibilities.”
Would the passage of a federal hate crimes bill restrict the freedom of preachers to preach? That is the meme of some conservative Christians and right-wing politicians as the bill, named for Matthew Shepard, passed the House of Representatives yesterday.
The Pew Research Center surveyed 742 Americans including white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated during the week of April 14-21 and found that 60% of evangelical churchgoers favored torture while only 40% of the unaffiliated agreed with them.
An ABC News-Washington Post poll shows that 49 percent support gay marriage in the US and 53 percent of those polled think that gay marriages held in other states should be honored in their own.
Savitiri Hensman notes that the Anglican Consultative Council meets to decide the future of the communion in one of the world’s most homophobic cities.
Bishop Linda Nicholls of the Church of Canada on a potential pandemic flu: The whole of society will be affected, including the Church, and it behooves us to reflect both pragmatically and theologically on how we will respond. Although the pragmatic response is often the easiest and quickest to deal with, it is especially important to reflect on the theological roots for our response.
Krista Tippett and the staff of Speaking of Faith visited Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland yesterday and tweeted all about it.
The Communion Partner bishops defended their most recent undertaking yesterday in a story released by Episcopal Life Online. Their comments brought this video to mind.