Bear Stearns gave away
April 11, 2008
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NYT: As part of the Bear Stearns culture, molded by the former chairman, Alan C. Greenberg, 1,000 senior managing directors gave away 4 percent of
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Jerusalem banned, again
April 11, 2008
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Last week the Very Rev Colin Slee, the Dean of Southwark, banned Jerusalem from a private memorial service in Southwark Cathedral. He has subsequently taken himself off to Brazil (presumably not in a chariot of fire) and is unavailable for comment. But a spokesman for the Diocese of Southwark confirmed that the dean “does not believe that Jerusalem is to the glory of God”.
Anglican African bishops call for pressure on Mugabe
April 11, 2008
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After a meeting in Pretoria, bishops from Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia urged regional leaders to put pressure on Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to accept disputed poll results.
Australia’s first female Anglican bishop appointed, strings attached
April 11, 2008
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The Anglican Archbishop of Perth, the Most Reverend Roger Herft, says he hopes the appointment will help overcome resistance to the elevation of women from some parts of the church. Archbishop Herft says the move will refresh the church. “The church has brought about diminishment to women in the world and in the church,” he said.
Belief is back
April 11, 2008
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The Newstatesman (UK) has three articles today under the heading “Belief is Back.” Mary Warnock, a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s advisory group on medical ethics writes: ‘ It is the role of legislators to be consequentialists. They must not ask, “What does my religion teach about this measure?” but “Will society benefit from it in the empirical world?” ‘
Religion as political weapon
April 10, 2008
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Journalist and Professor Richard Domke spoke to Episcopal Communicators today about how the American religious landscape has shifted from “civil religion” to “political religion” that has allowed religion to become a political weapon.
Leap of Faith
April 10, 2008
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The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev. John Sentamu, will take off in and then abandon a perfectly good airplane for a good cause later
Hard cases make bad law
April 10, 2008
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Dale Rye reflects on the recent court ruling in the dispute between the Anglican District of Virginia and the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and says it is a perfect example of why “hard cases make bad law” and that, if the ruling stands, it would be a disaster for every church and religious society.
Affirming Catholicism responsds to Wales vote on women bishops
April 10, 2008
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Affirming Catholicism comments on the narrow defeat in the Church of Wales of a proposal to allow women bishops in that Church, saying it exposes a deep seated problem that also exists in the Church of England.
Whole lot of religion going on….
April 10, 2008
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In what is supposed to be the most secular city in the nation, there is a whole of lot of religion going this weekend in Seattle. But don’t be surprised if it looks a lot different that what most of us are used to.
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