Category: The Lead

Amazing Grace Project

The Anglican Church in Canada wants to have a video present wrapped and ready in time for Christmas. Anglican congregations all across Canada are being

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One pastor’s forty year struggle

Christian Century describes the work of the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church and a former Pentecostal minister, who worked over four decades to establish legal and religious rights for gays and lesbians before the California Supreme Court decided to give the “right to marry” to same-sex couples.

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Welcome to Covenant Week

Today the Caf&eacute begins a week-long examination of the St. Andrew’s draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant. On each of the next five days, a member of the Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies will discuss a section of the proposed covenant on our Daily Episcopalian blog.

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Lambeth invite for provisional bishop of San Joaquin

I am pleased to be going, but I am more pleased because this a clear sign from the Anglican Communion that the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin is the only Anglican Diocese in all of inland Central California. I received this invitation because I am your Bishop and, therefore, entitled to attend the Lambeth Conference as the Bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin recognized by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Michael Gerson on the libertarian Jesus

It is true that Jesus was not a political activist; he joined no party and issued no Contract With the Roman Empire. But it is a stretch to interpret his personal challenge to the rich young ruler as a biblical foundation for libertarianism.

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