Many parishes across the country are in the middle, or getting ready to begin their yearly stewardship/pledge drive campaigns. With the DOW index hovering around 8000 this afternoon, and people watching the savings evaporate, how do we manage to think about the needs of the Church and World when we’re hurting so badly?
Following a similar line of reasoning of the decision earlier this year by the California Supreme Court, the Connecticut Supreme Court has issued a ruling that appears to overturn a “separate but equal” argument for civil unions and orders that same gender couple have the right to marry.
There’s a new feature on Bonnie Anderson’s webpages. It’s called “Voices of the House. Bonnie is the President of the House of Deputies (the larger and more senior portion of the Episcopal Church’s General Convention.) The Voices series has profiles of various deputies who have been elected to General Convention and who are expected to be present in Anaheim this coming summer.
Web users looking for support during the current financial situation have boosted traffic to a Church of England website section. The Matter of Life and Debt website section, which can help visitors work out if they will be seriously affected by the credit crunch, and useful advice for those worried about debt – has seen a 71 per cent increase in traffic in recent weeks.
The Columbus Dispatch reports on Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s visit to Trinity Episcopal Church–the site of her election as presiding bishop: On Saturday in
John McCain is the choice of voters who attend church weekly, but Barack Obama seems to be the choice of people who attend church once or twice a month. Of white evangelicals and black Protestants surveyed, 67 percent said their pastor speaks out about the issue of homosexuality — among Catholics that number drops to 37 percent.
Tom Heneghan at Reuters’ FaithWorld blog asks whether a pro-choice president, Barack Obama, for instance, could reduce the U.S. abortion rate? Steve Waldman of Beliefnet points out that “during Democratic administrations (pro-choice administrations) the average annual abortion rate is virtually identical to that under Republican administrations.”
The California Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case that pits the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles against parishes attempting to depart from the
From the Rev. Dr. James B. Simons: Today we received recognition as the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh in the Episcopal Church and because of the absence of a Bishop, the ecclesiastical authority. I am also pleased to announce that The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will be holding a reorganizing Convention on Saturday December 13th
Andy, not Jeffrey, is elected a bishop in the Church in Wales.