Seventy-four percent of Norwegians are Lutheran, and its Lutheran Church voted earlier this week (88 affirmative votes out of 115) to allow same-sex marriage, though
It’s not often the Bible and Fifty Shades of Grey appear on the same reading list, but they have at least once – in the
And if decisions made by the General Synod are a point of disagreement within the communion (i.e. a vote against same-gender marriage), Archbishop Hiltz says “there could be some ‘civil disobedience’ on the part of clergy and parishes….”
“The Pomfret School in Connecticut said it, too, is reviewing its policies and campus culture and has hired an investigator to receive reports of wrongdoing. Pomfret’s headmaster was formerly an administrator at St. George’s and has acknowledged not reporting some of the alleged abuse there to authorities.” – AP
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas, Bishop of Connecticut, announced that he will not stand for election as chair of the Anglican Consultative Council.
The Anglican Communion Office has released this statement from Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion in response to recent comments on events leading up to the Anglican Consultative Council meeting, ACC-16.
The Anglican Communion will break your heart if you let it. And it seems these days that you have to let it or leave it, and I choose the former. I love belonging to a global communion of faithful people whose perspectives broaden and deepen my own, whose faith inspires and challenges me, and with whom I can work to make our world a little bit more like God wants it to be.
Writing for the Diplomat, Dave Hazzan notes that Christianity, persecuted for 75 years, has flourished in Korea, which now sends out the most missionaries of
This tiny city of some 2,000 is overwhelmingly white and Christian, and home to a group of young women who sued their school district for
On 8 MAR 2016, a federal district court judge in Puerto Rice ruled that the US Supreme Court decision on marriage equality in 2015 did not apply to the island commonwealth. On 8 APR, the 1st US Court of Appeals, based in Boston MA, overturned Judge Pérez-Giménez’s decision.