Fort Worth members: NOT time to realign
September 30, 2008
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In the most recent Forward in Mission, the diocesan newsletter, Bishop Jack Iker give 10 reasons why now is the time to realign. John S.
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Baaa! Humbug.
September 30, 2008
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Peter Akinola has delievered a speech criticizing western morals. Guess what issue he focuses on?
Planning as holy conversation
September 30, 2008
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The Alban Institute’s topic of the week is planning in the congregational setting. Gill Rendle and Alice Mann write: Planning can be challenging in the
Catholic Bishops on moral aspects of financial crisis
September 30, 2008
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Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, New York, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, urged the Bush Administration and Congress, September 26, to consider the moral aspects of the current financial crisis.
Meanwhile in Pittsburgh
September 30, 2008
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October 4, the Diocese of Pittsburgh will take its final vote on whether members will follow their former bishop, Bob Duncan, to the Province of
Archbishop Ian Ernest: work together in love
September 30, 2008
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The proper path for The Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa (CAPA) was to be “transforming agents” for Christ in the world. “Jesus needs us to be his hands to serve, his feet to visit, and voice to speak for Him. This is our task. But very often as a Church we fail at this task. We belong to the Community of suffering and service, of faith, hope and love which carries saving mission to all people.”
Legitimately scary
September 29, 2008
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Iranian students have released a book containing cartoons of the Holocaust, including some depicting hospitalized Jews on respiratory machines attached to canisters of Zyklon B, the gas used to exterminate Jews during World War II. Meanwhile, a British publisher’s house was set afire, after he decieed to publish a novel about the early life of one Muhammad’s wives.
Canadians to focus on Williams’ request for moratorium
September 29, 2008
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Archbishop Hiltz said that the diocesan bishop of New Westminster, Michael Ingham, pointed out that it was not for him to rescind the diocese’s rite for the blessing of same-sex relationships. The diocesan synod has to debate the issue. Hiltz said that he’d be “very surprised if they rescind that motion.”
Is there a role for the Church in the financial panic?
September 29, 2008
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Most clergy are not trained in economics. And the last thing the country needs is well-intentioned moralistic advice from poorly-informed people. (See Sentamu, John.) Yet as the financial crisis in the United States deepens, it seems peculiar that neither the Christian left nor the Christian right has had much to say about the ideas and behaviors that brought about our financial panic. Greed isn’t great. But is that the best we have to offer?
Bishop Sauls on the Duncan deposition
September 29, 2008
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Bishop Stacy Sauls defended the deposition of Bishop Bob Duncan of Pittsburgh on the BBC’s Radio 4 Sunday program.
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