Friends in Honduras
May 17, 2007
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“You are transforming the world beginning in your own place,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the people of Sangre de Toro, Honduras, an isolated
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Our partners make it big
May 17, 2007
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Having a bulletin insert devoted to your ministry is about the highest accolade the Episcopal Church can provide, so we are delighted to announce that
The same, only more so
May 16, 2007
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Mark Harris is making a valiant effort to make sense of a recent letter from the Bishop of Pittsburgh, rumors from England’s most erratic relgion reporter about the Diocese of Fort Worth, and pleas from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Meanwhile we may be free to say something over on Daily Episcopalian in the next few days about the egregious op-ed former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson wrote in today’s Washington Post. But to do so now, would jeopardize our chances of reaching a larger audience.
Bishop Henderson on Dar es Salaam
May 16, 2007
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Bishop Dorsey Henderson (Diocese of Upper South Carolina) is another of the growing number of blogging bishops. He’s not given to pithy statements or short
The Draft Covenant: Aids for study and comment
May 16, 2007
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“Evaluating the Draft Covenant” contains the Study Guide from the Executive Council, the Covenant Design Group report with the draft covenant itself, the Windsor Report with its own covenant draft, and background materials like the “Historical Documents of the Church” section of the prayer book. “Evaluating the Draft Covenant” makes all the documents people are most likely to want to examine when responding to the Study Guide, including a few obscure ones and two items not available elsewhere. One of these is a compilation of all the scripture cited in the covenant draft.
Diocese of Virginia: Litigation Update
May 16, 2007
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Patrick Getlein, Secretary of the Diocese of Virginia, writing in the May Virginia Episcopalian gives a “Litigation Update”: In each case the leadership of the
Bishops call for reasoned debate on Iraq
May 16, 2007
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As Congress and the Administration consider the future of Iraq, we urge a careful and reasoned debate that avoids the partisan and harsh rhetoric that would diminish the important issues before our nation. We encourage full and open discussion that acknowledges our mistakes as well as our responsibilities. It is imperative that the United States now map out a strategy for a responsible transition to Iraqi governance, making clear that we do not have long term interests in occupying Iraq.
Province of Uganda seeks financiers
May 16, 2007
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Plans to build the Church House are on course despite the failure to meet fundraising targets.
Sources said the house of bishops opposed a proposal by Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi to abandon the project and sell the land. [A]n estimated sh1.9b is required to start work on the 16-storey building. The project coordinator, John Baguma, said the church was considering partnering with another investor to raise the sh20b [12m dollars].
Anglicans rending at Oxford seminary
May 16, 2007
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Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent for the Guardian writes: The discontent at Wycliffe Hall, an evangelical Anglican college which is part of Oxford University, has
Hiding in plain sight
May 15, 2007
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“What has not gotten media attention are the faithful witness and mission work that is going on all over this church. When your neighbors and friends ask you — O isn’t it awful in the Episcopal Church — I want you to tell them about something wonderful that’s going on in the Episcopal Church because there is a great deal of it.”
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