Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies have offered opening remarks at the meeting of
Writing in The Church Times, Linda Woodhead reports that on issues of personal and public morality, members of the Church of England are not in
Recently the Café ran an essay on
If there is no solution except for UTO to become totally subsumed into the DFMS, then this tells TREC that there is no way to reconfigure the Episcopal Church making it more a network of nationally active Episcopal Church related agencies and less a centralized regulatory system for management.
Dominican friar, writer, and advocate for the humane treatment of the indigenous people of the Americas, was one of the most important religious figures of the 16th-century Spanish world.
… there are also women (and men) selling sex voluntarily. But the notion that the sex industry is a playground of freely consenting adults who find pleasure in their work is delusional self-flattery by johns. Sex trafficking is one of the most severe human rights violations in America today. In some cases, it amounts to a modern form of slavery.
… we the UTO Four, remain faithful supporters of the United Thank Offering and the Board that is responsible for its policies and procedures; we are saddened at being dismissed as “members with no reasonable basis in fact to do so, …” We perceived a genuine threat to the continuing place of the United Thank Offering in the life of the Episcopal Church.
A rising trend of non-stipendary clergy who are called from within their congregation and educated in non-traditional seminaries is noted by
But what would happen if we recognize our raging laments and hurl them at God, the only one capable of catching them and holding them in love and safety?