Saturday collection 03/07/09
March 7, 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.
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Bishop Lee speaks about changes in the communion
March 7, 2009
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“I want to raise the strengths and uniqueness of what it means to be an Anglican Christian — of holding Orthodox views, but doing so in a way that remains open to all sorts of conditions of people. The separatists seem to have an emphasis on disciplining people who have different lifestyles than they do. That’s alien to the Anglican Communion.”
Mainline clergy surveyed
March 7, 2009
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On gay marriage, among Episcopalian clergy, 49% believe marriage should be legal, 38% civil union should be legal but not marriage, and 13% would give no legal recognition. Compared to other mainline denominations, Episcopalian clergy were most likely to disagree (36%) or strongly disagree (53%) that the Bible was the inerrant word of God.
Anglican bishops in Africa cautiously welcome new Zimbabwe government
March 6, 2009
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The bishops of Central Africa have released a statement regarding the formation of a new “Unity” government in Zimbabwe, a country whose president Robert Mugabe’s
+Niagara speaks with ABC about same-sex blessings
March 6, 2009
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I indicated to Archbishop Williams my intentions with regard to my giving permission for these blessings to begin to take place. We went on to have a very helpful and frank conversation about the implications involved and I expressed my own personal commitment and the strong desire of the Diocese of Niagara to remain in communication and dialogue with our sister and brother Anglicans around the world.
Bishop excommunicates those who helped 9 year old rape victim obtain abortion
March 6, 2009
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A Roman Catholic Archbishop in Brazil has punished the doctors and the mother of a 9 year old who became pregnant as a result of being raped by her step father. The mother and the doctor were found to have aided the girl in ending the pregnancy by means of abortion.
Vatican can be named in clergy sexual abuse suits
March 6, 2009
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A three-judge panel from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the man — who says he was molested in the 1960s by a priest at a Catholic school — can pursue a civil lawsuit against the Holy See because the priest allegedly abused him while serving in a religious capacity.
Prop 8 legality being tested
March 6, 2009
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Proposition 8, a voter-passed addition to the California constitution that overturns the ruling of the state’s Supreme Court earlier in the year which ordered same-sex
Bishop Lee to serve at Grace Cathedral
March 6, 2009
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The Diocese of California announced today that Bishop Peter Lee, the bishop of the Diocese of Virginia will serve as Interim Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Lee will begin this ministry in October of this year and will serve until the new dean has been installed.
Preaching God’s word with an eye on politics
March 5, 2009
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One day about six years ago, the Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale was testifying before Congress on behalf of abortion rights, basking among politicians who were interested to hear her views and happy to shake her hand. The next day, the Episcopal priest was back for a meeting at St. David’s, her tiny Pepperell church, where a 2-year-old scaled her chair to perch on her head.
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