Episcopal Relief and Development has issued its annual summary. Robert W. Radke, ERD’s president writes: Together with Anglican and ecumenical partners, ERD is working worldwide
Alone among southern African countries, Zimbabwe has shown a significant drop in its HIV rate in recent years. A major reason, researchers say, is the changing sexual habits of men forced to abandon costly multiple relationships.
“Teen birthrates continued their 15-year decline in 2005 as adolescents increasingly got into the habit of using condoms during sexual intercourse,” writes Marc Kaufman in The Washington Post. The percentage of teens having sex is down, too.
One of the world’s foremost feminist theologians and longtime member of the Yale Divinity School faculty, died Thursday, July 12 at her home in Guilford, CT. She was 77. A leader for many years in the ecumenical movement, she remained active in ecumenical circles until her death, working for the World Council of Churches and the World YWCA.
The Rt. Rev. Trevor Mwamba, Bishop of Botswana and dean of the Province of Central Africa, speaks about the Anglican Church in his local context and his vision for his diocese, especially in terms of education and empowerment.
Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda, has written a long essay that explains his sense of Anglicanism and why Anglicanism has an important message to the people of Uganda. It can help westerners understand the Ugandan Church’s objections to actions taken in other provinces.
The Church Times has a lead article that gives a sort of meta-view of the most recent General Synod in York and its functioning. Many
From TIME Magazine: The Democrats are so fired up, you could call them the new Moral Majority. This time the emphasis is as much on the majority as on the morality as they try to frame a message in terms of shared values. It’s an article of faith among party leaders that it was strategic stupidity to cede the values debate to Republicans.
Sinead O’Connor made headlines in the early ’90s when she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on national television. So it might
Through a partnership with Trinity Church Wall Street, the Episcopal Café will begin offering a weekly video feature produced by Trinity Television and New Media on Monday July 16.