Category: The Lead

Williams and Sentamu release statement on wedding

“We have heard the reports of the recent service in St Bartholomew the Great with very great concern. We cannot comment on the specific circumstances because they are the subject of an investigation launched by the Bishop of London.”

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Will the real Diocese of Pittsburgh please stand up?

The Bishop of Pittsburgh, Robert Duncan, has registered a new nonprofit Pennsylvania corporation named “Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh,” apparently so that he can claim that he is the rightful leader of the diocese in the event that he is deposed by the House of Bishops.

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New York on the St. Andrew’s Draft

The General Convention deputation from the Diocese of New York looks closely at the St. Andrew’s Draft of a proposed Anglican Covenant and finds some improvement but in the end focuses on the the potential dissolution of the Communion it seeks to preserve.

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Misson Priorities

Episcopal Life Online reports that Executive Council, meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, proposed mission priorities for the 2010-2012 triennium.

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Christian theology and alien life

Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research, once wrote that finding intelligent other-worldly life “will be inconsistent with the existence of God or at least organized religions.” But such predictions tend to come from outside Christianity. From within, theologians have debated the implications of alien contact for centuries. And if one already believes in angels, no great leap of faith is required to accept the possibility of other extraterrestrial intelligences.

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