This summer, Episcopalians in at least 20 dioceses are reaching out to them — children under under the radar of government aid — by sending them to summer camp for a week of learning and fun. Read Val Hymes’ report.
That this General Synod accept the conclusion of the Primate’s Theological Commission’s St. Michael Report that the blessing of same-sex unions is a matter of doctrine, but is not core doctrine in the sense of being credal, and that it should not be a communion-breaking issue.
The world may be flat, as Thomas Friedman, argues, but much of the infomation we receive is filtered through a corporatized media, hierarchical institutions, and politically movitaved interest groups. Americans receive little information about other countries directly from the people who live there. But that is changing
Experts agree, Ann Hurlbut writes, “that the loss of natural play opportunities in an urbanized world of smaller families and a ‘push-button civilization’ meant that play, alas, could no longer be left to kids. Read her article and on online discussion about the state of (child’s) play.
The Chicago Tribune website has an article reporting on the work and ministry of Bishop William Persell, the Episcopal Bishop of Chicago who will be leaving Chicago in the fall of this year.
The Rt. Rev. Frederick James Hiltz of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: A Primate’s ministry “inevitably involves what someone once described as “pushing the boat out from the shore,” launching out into the deep.” “It’s about the work of respecting the dignity of every human being, building a just society, and announcing the reign of God.”
The Ugandan House of bishops has set the date for Bishop elect Guernsey’s consecration for Sunday, 2nd September 2007. The bishop elect is presently the rector of a church in Virginia.
At the Canadian General Synod yesterday, three people came together to talk about their respective nation’s response to the Windsor Report in large-group breakout sessions,
Maureen Fiedler looks at both sides of the “contentious issues involved in the struggle within the Episcopal Church” in the latest episode of Interfaith Voices, an independent public radio program. In two separate segments, she speaks to Bishop Martyn Minns and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
“Even if the Anglican Church of Canada votes on Saturday to approve same-sex blessings, the spokesman for the world’s top Anglican says the Canadian denomination