Episcopal Life, the Church’s monthly newspaper, which circulates 250,000 copies, is going to operate without an editor, a decision that was apparently reached without consulting the paper’s board of governors, its numerous diocesan printing partners or anyone who has ever edited a newspaper. The president of Episcopal Communicators is urging reconsideration. (With update.)
Bishop Victoria Matthews, a Canadian bishop, commonly thought of as a moderate to conservative voice has been elected the bishop of Christ Church in New Zealand.
An Irish bookie, believing that the Archbishop of Canterbury’s days are now numbered because of his comments on Sharia Law, has opened betting on who
St. Paul’s in Walnut Creek, Calif. took an interesting route away from carbon power. The chair of the environment committee there started a business called Sonlight Solar, LLC, to provide backing to a project that would convert the church to solar power. Inspired by an October 2006 viewing of An Inconvenient Truth, parishioners found themselves searching for a way to make the solar conversion happen.
Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, one of 11 accredited seminaries in the Episcopal Church, has decided to stop offering a residential Masters of Divinity degree, and to enter a period of discernment about its future.
Andrew Brown notes with some alarm the increasing stridency of voices calling for the United Kingdom to act to fully separate the Anglican Church from the Government. Such an action would lead to an increase in intolerance and prejudice in English society he argues in a column published today.
John-David Schofield has written a letter to the Rev. Canon Brian Cox and the Rev. Canon Robert Moore, warning them that they are not to meddle in the affairs of the diocese. He paints them into a rhetorical corner, saying that if the argument was San Joaquin couldn’t remove itself from the Episcopal Church, that he and the diocese are still in TEC and that the canons’ presence was intrusive–but if they had legitimately left the diocese, then they were still intruding into another province’s diocese.
Many areas of the world are experiencing a decline in religious belief and practice. And where religions are flourishing, they are also generally evolving—very often in ways that allow them to fit more easily into secular societies, and that weaken them as politically disruptive forces.
Do participatory management practices result in open societies, or are the businesses that use them simply more abundant in healthy, peaceable communities? And do positive changes in society reflect enlightened business practice or the impact of politically motivated changes induced by organized labor and other social movements?
In a press release today the Church of England group Women and the Church (WATCH) reports: At the recent meeting of General Synod, members were