…encourages all couples, whether gay or straight, to be married in a civil ceremony with blessing to be performed by the clergy. Andrus also encourages all members of the diocese to become volunteer Deputy Marriage Commissioners. He intends to volunteer in this capacity.
In advance of GAFCON, CANA Bishop Martyn Minns is making the media rounds. He appears in a side by side profile with Gene Robinson in Time.com and on the BBC TV program Hardtalk. Time.com says that Minns has moved from Northern Virginia, to Morristown, New Jersey, which is inside the Diocese of Newark.
The Diocese of Albany met in convention last Saturday and, among other business, elevated two existing policies to the level of diocesan canon: one prohibiting same-sex blessings and another reserving licensed ministry to clergy who are “married, celibate or abstinent.”
The Ecclesiastical Trial of the Right Reverend Charles E. Bennison, Jr., Bishop of Pennsylvania began today.
Bishop Gene Robinson and his longtime partner Mark Andrew were united in a private civil union ceremony on Saturday, June 7 at St. Paul’s Church, Concord before attorney Ronna Wise, a justice of the peace.
The Fund for Theological Education, an ecumenical foundation based in Atlanta, has awarded theological education grants to 162 top students under 35, at least 16 are Episcopalian.
Many of them fervently believe that in the next several decades we’ll have computers into which you’ll be able to upload your consciousness—the mysterious thing that makes you you. Then, with your consciousness able to go from mechanical body to mechanical body, or virtual paradise to virtual paradise, you’ll never need to face death, illness, bad food, or poor cellphone reception. Now you know why the singularity has also been called the rapture of the geeks.
The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee spoke of the anguish of leaving his church family, where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright had given incendiary and racially charged sermons.
Peg and Bob Green of St. Petersburg are empathetic, even though they’re Republicans.
South Carolina drivers will be the first in the nation to be offered license plates that carry the phrase “I Believe” and a Christian cross over a stained-glass window under a law that took effect on Thursday.
Few Democrats have seemed more comfortable talking about God than Barack Obama has. And yet few, if any, have had more problems with God at the ballot box—from rumours that he is a Muslim to doubts among Catholic and Jewish voters to repeated “pastor eruptions”. The good news for Mr Obama in all of this is that he is up against a Republican candidate in John McCain who has plenty of God problems of his own.