You were worse than we are
June 19, 2008
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A young person defends the moral fitness of young people in an intriguing post that is more explict than our usual fare.
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Bishop Smith, blogger
June 18, 2008
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Bishop Smith and Laura will be traveling to the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury England from July 10 to August 4, 2008. This blog has been created to communicate with the folks back home in the Diocese of Arizona about what is happening day to day at the Conference.
GAFCON embarrassment: Akinola denied entry to Jordan
June 18, 2008
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Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria has been denied entry to Jordan. This is an embarrassing beginning to the GAFCON conference of conservative Anglicans who now plan to leave Jordan for Jerusalem three days early. Readers of the Café will remember that Akinola, a fierce critic of Islam, has refused to answer questions about his knowledge of a retributive massacre of some 700 Muslim in the town of Yelwa in northern Nigeria in 2004.
Pastoral letter from Zimbabwe
June 18, 2008
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In Zimbabwe today falsehood has almost become a national disease. Some newspapers and electronic media thrive on spreading falsehoods. They twist the truth for falsehood. All forms of persecution – torture, killings, arrests are done by those for whom falsehood has become a doctrine that keeps them to sustain their status quo…
Gay marriage isn’t about culture wars or church politics
June 18, 2008
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The Archbishop of Canterbury himself has rightly recognised that celibacy is a vocation to which many gay people are simply not called. Which is why, it strikes me, the church ought to be offering gay people a basis for monogamous relationships that are permanent, faithful and stable.
The Rev. Dr. Giles Fraser
Bishop of London writes Dudley
June 18, 2008
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‘You describe the result as “familiar words reordered and reconfigured carrying new meanings.” I note that the order of service, which I have now received, includes the phrase “With this ring I thee bind, with my body I thee worship”. At first sight this seems to break the House of Bishops Guidelines….’
Episcopal Relief and Development helps Iowa
June 17, 2008
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Working with its partner the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa, ERD is providing emergency assistance to people who have been displaced from their homes. Families will be given temporary shelter and provided with food, clothing, first aid and other basic necessities.
The environment and the Lambeth Conference
June 17, 2008
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Lambeth comes at a great cost in terms of time, money, spiritual energy, and greenhouse gas emissions. The cost is an easier one to bear for Anglican attendees than it is for the rest of Creation. Yet it is a justifiable cost if something good comes out of Lambeth for the Earth and all the creatures God has breathed into this biosphere.
2000 year old seed from Masada sprouts
June 17, 2008
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The little tree was sprouted in 2005 from a seed recovered from Masada, where rebelling Jews committed suicide rather than surrender to Roman attackers.
Executive Council receives proposed revisions to disciplinary canons
June 17, 2008
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[Hutchinson] said the new proposal is rooted in the Baptismal Covenant and the need for accountability and responsibility, as well as healing and reconciliation.
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