Where do our Palm Sunday palm crosses come from?
April 10, 2017
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One source for Palm Sunday palm crosses, especially in England, is African Palms.
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Study released on representation of women priests in large parishes in the Church of England
April 10, 2017
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The Ministry Division in the Church of England has released a study, Vocational pathways: Clergy leading large churches, about why women are under represented in major parishes in England.
Egypt declares state of emergency after bombings of Coptic churches
April 10, 2017
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Yesterday, two Coptic churches in Egypt where hit by suicide bombers.
The Way of the Cross, a meditation for Holy Week
April 8, 2017
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By the Revd Br Tobias Stanislas Haller, BSG. The video is a set of Stations of the Cross that Tobias created for his parish in 2014. The music for meditating is a Symphonic poem that Tobias wrote in 1982. The music is based on traditional music of the Passion and ends with a chorale that “looks beyond the Way of the Cross towards Easter.”
10 Downing Street announces appointment for the See of Sheffield.
April 8, 2017
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The Crown Nominations Commission has announced an appointment for bishop diocesan for the See of Sheffield.
Religious liberty vs LGBTQ citizens
April 8, 2017
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We have perhaps all seen the most vocal situations of businesses not wanting to serve LGBTQ folks. The legal argument is, that any business owner with a firmly held religious belief, should be allowed to refuse service to LGBTQ folks, if serving them would violate the business owner’s belief. The conservative law firms that fight these cases often contend that their position is that which is held by the majority of US citizens. Recent polling affirms that only one group actually supports laws legalizing discrimination against LGBTQ citizens.
Westminster Choir College is being sold by Rider University
April 7, 2017
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Westminster Choir College, of Princeton, New Jersey, is being sold by Rider University, which acquired the college in 1992.
Survey on two marriage liturgies released.
April 7, 2017
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The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music is inviting Episcopalians to complete an online survey as part of its effort to gather data on the church’s response to two marriage liturgies that were authorized for trial use at the 2015 General Convention.
Universal Credit program announces two-child limit: UK churches respond
April 6, 2017
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Reported yesterday in Ekklesia: From tomorrow (6 April 2017), the Government’s flagship benefit, Universal Credit, will not offer help to the third or subsequent children
Poetry and roses: Lives changed, stanza by stanza
April 6, 2017
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The Washington Post has published the story behind a documentary just screened at George Mason University – Voices from Behind the Wall: Twelve Love Poems
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