Bishop Tutu to lead peace mission
September 18, 2007
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Ekklesia reports that a delegation from a group called The Elders will go to Darfur on a peace mission. The Elders are retired statesmen organized
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No line in the sand in New Orleans
September 18, 2007
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“I do not believe,” says Bishop Duncan Gray, “as I’ve said to many of you previously, that this gathering of the House of Bishops is a final ‘line in the sand’ moment. It is a part of a process that will help us to discern, in the words of the Windsor Report, the ‘highest degree of communion possible’ within our Anglican Communion.”
We all need the Anglicans right now
September 18, 2007
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“From where I stand,” says Joan Chittister, “we need those who can develop a model of faith in times of uncertainty in which the tradition is revered and the prophetic is honored. Unless we want to see ourselves go into either tyranny or anarchy, we better pray for the Anglicans so that they can show us how to do that.”
As if things weren’t complicated enough
September 17, 2007
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The Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, the Most Rev. Peter Jensen, is said to be moving forward with plans to institute lay presidency of the Holy Eucharist as an integral part of the ministry of the Diocese of Sydney. Significantly, the plan is to do this under the cover of existing canons, designed for others purposes, so that past legislative defeated by the rest of the Anglican Church of Australia can be ignored.
This week’s news
September 17, 2007
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The House of Bishops meets this week with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates Meeting and the Anglican Consultative
Where true victory is to be found
September 17, 2007
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The voice of the faithful is the most powerful when it gives up human assumptions of power, victory and control. But the Church has become
A moral duty
September 17, 2007
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The Most Rev. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, says the situation in “Zimbabwe cannot any more be seen as an African problem needing an African
Saving Zimbabwe is not colonialism, it’s Britain’s duty
September 17, 2007
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That’s the headline on the op-ed by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, in the Observor. The archbishop writes, “The time has come for Mr Brown finally to slay the ghosts of Britain’s colonialist past by thoroughly revising foreign policy towards Zimbabwe and to lead the way in co-ordinating an international response. The time for ‘African solutions’ alone is now over.”
In God we trust
September 16, 2007
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October 1st marks the 50th anniversary of the appearance of “In God We Trust” on the paper currency of the United States. The phrase, which is the nation’s official motto as well, has been caught in a broader debate over just how high the wall separating church and state should stand.
The Stillborn God?
September 16, 2007
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Why has religion persisted in the West after the Enlightenment? Did the nature of Christianity itself push us toward secularism? Mark Lilla offers some answers in The Stillborn God, which is reviewed in the New York Times Book Review today
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