This fall, hundreds of thousands of Ohio State University (OSU) football fans will receive a little something extra in their game programs — an invitation to any of the more than 80 congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
Bibliolatry is a boulder threatening to obscure the dynamic and contemporary truth of the resurrection. It is also the mother of dogmatic fundamentalism. Love for the scriptures is tainted when scripture and not God becomes the object of worship.
The International Cooperation Committee of the Chubu Diocese of the Anglican/Episcopal Church in Japan is opposing proposed changes to the Japanese constitution and is asking for help from others to ask their governments to put pressure on the Japanese government.
Governor Perry is a devout Christian, highlighting one key factor in Texas’ enthusiasm for the death penalty that many outsiders find puzzling — the support it gets from conservative evangelical churches.
This is in line with their emphasis on individuals taking responsibility for their own salvation, and they also find justification in scripture.
“A lot of evangelical Protestants not only believe that capital punishment is permissible but that it is demanded by God. And they see sanction for that in the Old Testament especially,” said Matthew Wilson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
“Their behaviours do not conform to the religious conduct of the Anglican church because it is them that ordained homosexuals as bishops not Africans”. Bishop Rucahana said the Anglican Church in Rwanda will not be pushed into adopting the satanic behaviour of the “whites because they are whites”.
Colorado Christian University has fired the teacher of a course on globalization. The school says faith in the free enterprise system is central to its mission. The professor says he simply stops short of deifying capitalism.
At one of the first plenary sessions, the organizers announced (to much applause) that no official statements would come from the meeting. Instead, lots of time was scheduled for conversation, including meals, siestas, and “marketplace” encounters.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought, “This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.” Not a single person in this gate — once the cries of confusion stopped — was apprehensive about any other person. They took to the cookies. All I felt like hugging everyone else.
General Theological Seminary in New York City, will begin construction this month on of one of the largest geothermal projects in the Northeast, converting the school’s present heating-cooling system, powered by fossil fuel, to a new energy-efficient geothermal system.
Among the highlights of the first year of her nine-year term as bishop, was seeing the hard work of American church members to reach the rural areas of Kansas and seeing churches in Brazil ministering to the poor there. On a February trip to Cuba, she discovered a “thriving Episcopal church” and helped consecrate two new bishops.