Category: The Lead

Lambeth Registrations, churches re-opening, and property case delays… It’s our Saturday roundup of news from the past week.

“We are children of the one God who is the Creator of us all,” said Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. “It is our sisters, our brothers, our siblings who are seeking protection and asylum, fleeing violence and danger to children, searching for a better life for themselves and their children. The crisis at the border is not simply a challenge of partisan politics but a test of our personal and public morality and human decency.”

In an article published by the Church Times June 28 (note it’s behind a paywall), Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town urges everyone, including the

Grace Cathedral in San Francisco has launched an online petition responding to the ongoing turmoil at the US southern border. The letter takes the form of a mandatory report of child abuse.

In this op-ed, bishop John Taylor of Los Angeles reflects on current US policy towards Israel

Royal christenings, Bishops wanting to focusing on what we have in common, and creative choices for that extra land around the old parish; its our weekly roundup of the stories you don’t want to miss

A group of bishops from across the Communion, led by Bishop George Sumner of Dallas, today published a letter in which they express their hopes

The resolution states, “All Episcopal institutions, programs, facilities, and services must ensure the safety of participants which should include requiring that all participants and staff participating are vaccinated in accordance with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Immunization Schedule and/or applicable state law…”

In some groups, today’s 80-year-olds are less sexist than today’s 30-year-olds (e.g., black protestant and Jewish). But in others the pattern is perhaps in line with our intuition: the older generations are more sexist, or little different from younger generations.