Diocese of Maine elects new bishop
October 26, 2007
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Episcopal Diocese of Maine elected The Rev. Canon Stephen Lane as Bishop on the first ballot this morning. Bishop-elect Lane is presently the Canon for
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A broken process or one that worked?
October 26, 2007
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Following the release of the Joint Standing Committee’s report to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the subject of the American church’s response to the Dar Es Salaam communiqué, there are have been charges that the report should ignored because the process by which it was written was flawed. Andrew Goddard, in a piece on the Anglican Fulcrum site looks closely at this question and describes in detail the process by which the report came to be
New Orleans ready to reach out to California
October 26, 2007
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People of the region are ready to do whatever is needed to help the folks of Southern California get back on their feet after the wildfires. The Diocese of Louisiana’s offices are getting calls asking when folks are preparing to leave for California.
Canadian primate meets with Archbishop of Canterbury
October 26, 2007
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“It’s always nice to hear someone like the Archbishop of Canterbury or from the Anglican Communion Office say you’re handling this coherently, cautiously, judiciously, and you’ve got some things I would hold up as a model for others to consider as they grapple with the issue,” said Archbishop Hiltz.
Anglicans back to Rome
October 25, 2007
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Scattered across the news feeds are reports of Anglican parishes “defecting to Rome.” The request seems to have come out of Ireland, joined by others from 12 countries. If approved by the Vatican, the move would allow 400,000 traditional Anglicans worldwide to be admitted into the Catholic Church–in fact, would see the entire parish communities received into the Catholic Church.
Friends, family remember slain soldier
October 25, 2007
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Episcope points us to an article about Corporal Ciara Durkin, a National Guard soldier serving in Afghanistan who was found dead from a gunshot wound last month. Durkin, a lesbian and an Episcopalian, “was killed on a secure U.S. military base, and according to her family she had told them prior to her death that she had concerns for her safety and that they were to push for an investigation if anything happened to her.”
There’s something about Mary
October 25, 2007
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U.S. Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders met last week at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va., to discuss the role of the Virgin Mary and the progress in ecumenical relations between the two churches.
Archbishop Williams on misunderstanding religion
October 25, 2007
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Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are in the news as much as, if not more than, Focus on the Family and Pat Robertson lately. The
Bishop and Cardinal in row over climate change
October 25, 2007
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In Australia this week, the Anglican general synod in Canberra has passed a canon “recognising that climate change was a serious threat to present and future generations and seeking to reduce the environmental footprint of the church and its agencies,” according to The Age. But what’s more curious about the matter of climate change is the public argument going on between the Anglican bishop of Canberra, George Browning, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell.
Cain on trial
October 25, 2007
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This past Saturday, D.C. Superior Court Judge Zoe Bush opened her courtroom to a mock grand jury. Their charge? Whether to indict Cain for the murder of Abel. The courtroom was filled with families who got to see the familiar story played out in a modern context. But the event was more than a contemporary retelling of the Genesis story, according to Bush. It’s a hard look at “the first murder” to help examine violent crime in today’s society.
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