“Our primary work right now is caring for the people in the Seabury community whose lives are being dramatically disrupted,” Dean Gary Hall said. “While we need to look to what Seabury might become in the future, we have focused almost all of our energies on the immediate concerns facing those around us.”
Christ Church in Philadelphia is in the midst of a public examination of its slave-holding past, and plans “regular dramatic enactments of slaves and slaveholders, Founding Fathers and chattel, and slave-owning abolitionists.” The presentations are scheduled to begin May 1.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a joint statement this morning concerning the deteriorating situation of ordinary people in Zimbabwe calling for “a civil society movement that both gives voice to those who demand an end to the mayhem that grows out of injustice, poverty, exclusion and violence.”
The Kenyan and Rwandan archbishops each support breakaway congregations in the United States. Neither will take Communion with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church. Yet, there they were at Archbishop Deng Bul’s consecration with representatives of the Episcopal Church. This is all to the good, but it raises certain questions.
In 2006, the Diocese of Washington asked the General Convention to include Thurgood Marshall in the Episcopal Church’s book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts. The request was referred to a church commission, but those who support Marshall’s cause can hold a Eucharist in his honor next month, perhaps on May 17, the anniversary of his victory in Brown. v. Board of Education.
The diseases that are responsible for this troubling trend seem to be most related to smoking, high blood pressure, and obesity. “Smoking and blood pressure have a long history of being controlled through both personal and population strategies,” said one author of the study.
Amended John-David Schofield has changed the name of his corporation back to “The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin The Living Church reports: California law
It is the locavore’s dilemma that organic bananas delivered by a fuel-efficient boat may be responsible for less energy use than highly fertilized, nonorganic potatoes trucked from a hundred miles away. Even locally grown, organic greenhouse tomatoes can consume 20 percent more resources than a tomato from a far-off warm climate, because of all the energy needed to run the greenhouse.
As a result of ethanol subsidies and mandates, what we ourselves throw away in order to produce fuel in this fashion could be 50% greater than the value of the fuel itself. We could have more food for the Haitians, more fuel for us, if we were simply to use our existing resources more wisely. We have adopted this policy not because we want to drive our cars, but because our elected officials perceive a greater reward from generating a windfall for American farmers.
The Archbishop of Canterbury today set out his hopes for this year’s Lambeth Conference in a video message addressed to Bishops and Dioceses across the worldwide communion.