The Rev. Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and executive director of Political Research Associates and vicar of St. David’s Episcopal Church has been named the new president and dean of Episcopal Divinity School.
George Pitcher writes in the Telegraph that retirement of Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester may be “emblematic of the decline of a political force in worldwide Anglicanism, which as recently as last year threatened to tear our Communion apart.”
The Most Rev. Rowan Williams and other Christian, Jewish and Islamic leaders are calling on the leaders of the G20 nations to remember the most vulnerable and the moral implications of their choices when they meet in London this week.
By now you have probably heard that the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has sent a draft budget to General Convention that eliminates the 0.7% line item for the Millennium Development Goals. Be not afraid. Be very excited. Why? Because this has provided us a moment of great opportunity — an opportunity to give everyone a vision for prophetic and inspirational living out of our Christian call through our budgets.
In a gathering of the Archbishops’ Council, the Church’s executive body, last week, Dr Williams agreed with suggestions that the future of religious broadcasting is under threat.
Kathleen Parker writes: “Ahmanson certainly doesn’t believe that homosexuals should be executed, as some of his critics have suggested, but he does believe that gays should ‘come to Christ and then recover.’ ” But actually, it isn’t his critics who have said this, but Ahmanson himself.
For Tyrrell, and those who thought like him, Christian faith was not equivalent to its formulation, which of its nature is fixed in a given time. The eternal truths must always be capable of re-expression and this involves an appeal to how individuals relate to God and to the world at any given historical epoch.
Near the end of my semester there [at Liberty University], my friend David Leipziger ’09 (who, as a gay Jewish liberal, would finish second only to my ex-roommate in a contest of stereotypical Brown students) decided, out of perverse curiosity, to come visit me. He stayed for an entire weekend, and the most amazing thing happened: he got along with everyone.
That’s what the Tri-Faith Initiative has been about – chasing an implausible dream of setting an example to the world by creating a shared religious campus for Jews, Muslims and Christians in Omaha, while building relationships between different faiths, one meal, one person, one prayer at a time.
Here is our weekly collection plate, offering 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.