A reason to unite
October 15, 2007
No Comments
Most people don’t even have shoes in Bishop Anthony Poggo’s Anglican diocese in southern Sudan. His people in the Diocese of Kajo Keji struggle with
The Archive
Category: The Lead
The science of temptation
October 14, 2007
2 Comments
Religious leaders have always known that human beings, despite our best intentions, can and will be led astray by temptation. A recent journal article offers
Is it just “culture”?
October 14, 2007
1 Comment
In the New York Times earlier this week, Slavoj Zizek, the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, defended the Chinese Governemtns recent efforts to regulate religion–including Order No. 5, a law covering “the management measures for the reincarnation of living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism.” One of Zizek’s more provocative arguments is that even in the West religion is largely becoming a mere matter of culture, rather than faith.
End time for Metropolitan Community Church?
October 14, 2007
5 Comments
The Metropolitan Community Church was founded in 1968 as a church home for the GLBT faithful who otherwise had no welcoming church home. With a change in attitude in many mainline congregations, however, the future of the Church may be in doubt.
Ottawa synod recommends same-sex blessings
October 13, 2007
No Comments
The synod of the diocese of Ottawa, by an overwhelming vote of 177 to 97, today approved a motion requesting its bishop to allow clergy “whose conscience permits, to bless duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same-sex couples, where at least one party is baptized” and to authorize rites for such blessings.
A crisis for Crisis
October 13, 2007
No Comments
Crisis was predictable, and often extravagantly belligerent, eager to juxtapose “faithful Catholics” with, well, most Catholics. A typical example was an article denouncing journalists such as the Washington Post’s E. J. Dionne as “Catholics in Name Only.” Remind you of any outlets for commentary in the Episcopal/Anglican world?
The FundamentaList
October 13, 2007
No Comments
The American Prospect, a liberal opinion magazine, now devotes a regular feature to chronicling the political machinations of the Religious Right. It’s called The FundamentaList.
Dallas paper profiles Robinson
October 13, 2007
No Comments
The Dallas Morning News offers a profile of Bishop Gene Robinson and a sidebar on his parents. The bishop says: I take the long view
Antichrist comes to dinner
October 13, 2007
No Comments
The Washington Post writes: “In the wildly popular ‘Left Behind’ series of evangelical Christian novels, the Antichrist takes the form of the secretary general of the United Nations, sets up an abortion-promoting world government and becomes the Global Community Supreme Potentate. Last night, the National Association of Evangelicals met for dinner at the Sheraton in Crystal City. The keynote speaker? Why, the Antichrist himself.
The big push?
October 13, 2007
No Comments
The Anglican Scotist analyzes the Campaign to Frighten Rowan (CaFRow) currently being conducted by the Anglican right. Bishop Michael Nazir Ali is the latest campaigner to issue a most likely empty threat to “boycott” the Lambeth Conference. But the campaign is foundering. Primates of the Council of Anglican Provinces in African rebuffed Archbishop Peter Akinola’s attempt to organize a continent-wide boycott at their recent meeting, and some bishops from Akinola’s own province, the Church of Nigeria, have already accepted their invitations.
Archives
Categories
©2006-2025 | Episcopal Cafe