All Saints Church announced today that the IRS has confirmed that it has closed its investigation of the Church, and the Church will not be subject to excise tax in connection with any alleged political campaign intervention.
For Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori running is a form of body prayer and a time of reflection according to an interview in this month’s issue of Runner’s World.
UPDATE: See below for news of the letter from Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies. At least five congregations of 47 parishes in
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has not in any way endorsed the actions of the Primate of the Southern Cone, Bishop Gregory Venables, in his welcoming of dioceses, such as San Joaquin in the Episcopal Church, to become part of his province in South America.
(Updated) Saying that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has “taken people’s identity” and “cut it to pieces,” the Most Rev. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York,
The War on Christmas has a glorious history. In 1645 Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan brethren took over jolly old England. Deciding that anything jolly was probably of the devil, they vowed to rid England of such decadent conceits as Christmas. Cromwell and Company banned Christmas and any festivities having to do with it. Not to be bested by their colleagues across the pond, Massachusetts Puritans criminalized Christmas, and, in 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts passed the Five-Shilling Anti-Christmas Law.
While there has been a great deal of commentary about Mitt Romney’s speech on faith in America, there is growing concern by some that the most disturbing aspect of the speech was that it expressly excludes the so-called faithless. David Brooks captured these concerns well in his New York Times column on Friday.
The editors of Christian Century have announced their selections for the best books (and music) of 2007 in several categories, including theology, spirituality, fiction, children’s lterature, classical music and pop Christmas music.
Readers of the Café are going to be hearing a lot about The Chicago Consultation in the days ahead. The Consultation, held at Seabury-Western Seminary, Dec. 5 thru 7, was a meeting of some 50 Anglicans from around the world committed to advancing the full inclusion of gays and lesbains within the Communion and to resisting those who seek to split the Communion by setting one group of marginalized people against another.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori: The Episcopal Church will continue in the Diocese of San Joaquin, albeit with new leadership