The Episcopal Church has been conducting environmentally responsible conventions for many years and today new initiatives were announced to make the next General Convention the greenest convention ever.
… more than a few churches at risk of being written off as dead or dying have a hearth faintly aglow with embers ready to be breathed into flame.
Opening day for the Detroit Tigers falls on Good Friday. The Rev. Harry Cook, rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Clawson, MI, writes on
The 2009 Blue Book online, has a report from the Theology Committee of the House of Bishops:
It is clear, in letters between Fitzgerald and a range of bishops, among bishops themselves, and between Fitzgerald and the Vatican, that the hierarchy was aware of sexual abuse and its implications well before the problem surfaced as a national story in the mid-1980s.
The prime minister, speaking at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, set out what he saw as the four great global challenges of this generation: financial instability in a world of global capital flows, environmental degradation in a world of changing energy need, violent extremism in a world of mass communications, and a world of growing inequalities.
“Get healthy; learn to love one another,” Jefferts Schori prayed, adding that those present must make attempts to lower the level of conflict in the diocese, and she urged them to adopt a discipline to help restore broken relationships. “Look for the blessing in the person that drives you crazy.”
Here is the 2009 Easter message from the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
The stations of the cross are in Wales, and on Good Friday you can ride the train to each one.
The Obama administration has not ended the Bush administration practice of allowing faith-based groups that receive federal funding to discriminate in hiring.