The sacrament of unity, the Eucharist, in the final offering of the gathering, confirmed for me the essence of what it means to be a pilgrim, seeking the kingdom of God and its values of justice, peace and salvation for all.
We worked for the one Bishop in Tanzania that was willing to stand up against signing the Anglican Church of Tanzania letter cutting off ties with the Episcopal Church. Bishop Mhogolo gathered all of us together to explain his position and told us that with all of the help that Africa needs, it is foolish to single out one organization for one sin.
The Rt. Rev. Clarence Pope, former bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth, became a member of the Roman Catholic Church for the second time.
Wendy Shalit has made a career as the sort of journalist whose trend stories fall apart on closer examination. But no matter, because by the time closer examination occurs, the stories have frequently started quite useful conversations. Her latest book, Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good, is a case in point.
Beliefnet is exploring Barry Bonds’ assault on Hank Aaron’s career home run record from a religious point of view. Today, Michael Kress, who says he finds himself “overcome by a deep sense of sadness and more than a little outrage when contemplating Bonds’s achievement.”
Bishops from around the world attend installation of new bishop for Iran at St. Paul’s Church, Tehran.
The altar is a tray for serving breakfast in bed. The pews are large towels or striped beach chairs. And instead of doodling on the program, distracted children can play with a bucket or bury a parent’s feet in the sand. On Saturdays in the summer, Trinity Church, an Episcopal congregation here, celebrates a beach Mass at 6 p.m., attracting up to 75 people….
“The orthodox voice of the multitude is drowned out and ignored in Anderson’s analysis in favour of selective quotation from the fringe.” So says the Rev. Arun Arora, director of communications for the Archbishop of York, in a cogent dissection of an essay by the Rev. David Anderson of the Church of Nigeria recently published in the Church of England Newspaper.
The Episcopal Church and the Canadian Anglican Church are not the only denominations that will confront the issue of same sex realtionships this year. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (“ELCA”), the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States will at their biannual assembly in Chicago next week.
Churches can be sizable institutions with serious administrative responsibilities. To what extent should the Church look to the secular business community for assistance? These are questions that are explored in a commentary by Tom Horwood in the Guardian.