Religious leaders from Massachusetts are lending their support to the campaign for the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York state, telling New Yorkers that gay marriage has not affected religious freedom in the Bay State.
In an email Seitz said a Colorado priest “will request of [Mark Lawrence, Bishop of South Carolina] as a Communion Partner bishop, a ‘visitation’, the purpose of which is to prevent his parishioners from concluding that the only route for them is joining ACNA (which will be happening in Colorado soon) because their Diocesan is not foregrounding his covenant commitments…
Because the canon for communications in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (that would be me) is a bear of very little brain, it only recently occurred to him to put the movie that the marvellous Hugh Drescher made for us five years ago on You Tube.
Matthew Davies, writing at Episcopal Life Online reports on the Communion Partners statement: A statement released April 22 and signed by Episcopal bishops and clergy
At a moment when Warren is expanding his role from megachurch pastor to national and international public figure, his increasing proclivity for sowing controversy is threatening his status as political peacemaker. “He would really like it if everyone would love Rick Warren, and when they don’t, he’s troubled,” says Jeffery Sheler, author of a forthcoming Warren biography.
The Episcopal Sisters of the Community of the Holy Spirit on the upper West Side of New York are transforming their convent into one of the most eco-friendly buildings in New York City.
Last May, Wesley James Queen left death threats on the voice mails of the Rev. Simon Bautista, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington’s Canon for Latino Ministries and other leaders of CASA de Maryland. Yesterday, at a crowded news conference, Queen embraced the people whom he had threatened and apologized.
“We are especially dismayed that this attempt to undermine the Church’s governance involves leaders who have held positions on the Communion-wide body that produced the proposed Anglican Covenant. The various drafts of the Covenant have each created impediments to the full inclusion of all baptized Christians in the Communion and thereby undermine God’s gift of unity. Regrettably, we must now question the full intent of these documents.
“For reasons I will never know (perhaps providential — most likely it is that my initials are the similar as his and thus someone typed in an incorrect email) this morning I received in my email box communication from Bishop D.Bruce MacPherson and a group of his supporters about new documents that are in their final phase of planning that they plan to release soon.”
The paper makes the curious argument that because the dioceses that formed the original Episcopal Church were independent prior to entering into union with each other, they somehow maintain that independence. … One might just as well say that because a couple were single before marriage that they retain their independence afterward.