The Diocese of Pittsburgh has moved its yearly Diocesan Convention forward by a month so as to be better positioned to respond to the expected action by the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops following the Lambeth Conference.
The Scottish Episcopal Church is meeting in its General Synod now. The reports from the first day’s business have appeared on its web site, and are summarized on Thinking Anglicans. In their meeting, the Synod expressed a willingness to participate in the design of a possible covenant, but pointedly stopped at saying anything more committal.
The program, which began as a prison bible study program out of St. Martha’s Episcopal Church in Bethany Beach, has grown into a private non-profit organization assisting prisoners upon their release.
The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum have condemned what they say are the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council’s repeated efforts to undermine freedom of expression in the name of protecting religious sensibilities.
Although FEMA and insurance companies have been slow to respond to the victims of the tornado that struck Windsor, Colorado, the churches have been quick
Bennison admitted he was also concerned about his own future. “Any disturbance in the parish would reflect poorly on my leadership in the parish at that time.”
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, was the Harvard University commencement speaker this year. Her themes were the benefits of failure and the
…poverty is not only about the lack of financial resources, but more centrally about an absence of opportunities and choices which allow people to build decent lives for themselves and their families.
It is all very busy. We are delighted people are still registering but the conference is nearly full now. Bedrooms have almost run out!
Anna, The Lambeth Conference 2008
The Southern Baptist principle of local church autonomy means it’s up to individual churches — and not the convention — to screen employees and take action against offenders, the committee said. Local church autonomy rules out creating a centralized investigative body to determine who has been credibly accused of sexual abuse or anything else, it said, and the convention has no authority to bar known perpetrators from ministry.