The Anglican Church in Nigeria has been hit with claims of corruption and bribery in the recent election of a bishop for the diocese of Lagos.
“The crusades and ministry of the Rev. Billy Graham was a big tent, a revival tent — big, gracious, welcoming, and deeply grounded in the love that is the way of Jesus.”
News outlets are reporting this morning that the Reverend Billy Graham has died at the age of 99. The Washington Post reports that he was
Responding to students’ call the vice chancellor asked whether revoking the degree would accomplish anything. Doing so would be “to add a feather to a thousand-pound weight,” he said.
The faculty of the School of Theology of the University of the South responds to the actions of the Board of Regents that decline to revoke the honorary degree for Charlie Rose.
The Right Reverend Gregory O. Brewer, Bishop of the Diocese of Central Florida has published an open letter to Senator Rubio, calling on him as a Christian to enact gun reform.
In December, students at Sewanee submitted a petition to the board to rescind an honorary degree awarded to Charlie Rose in 2016. Rose was accused last year by several women of sexual assault, and has admitted that the claims are true. After long deliberation, the university board has decided that the honorary degree shall remain, citing the need for Christian forgiveness.
On Saturday, Rhode Island police held an active shooter preparedness training at St. James Episcopal Church in North Providence.
Tarana Burke spoke to over a thousand packed into Pittsburgh’s Calvary Episcopal Church on #Me Too and the strength of empowerment through empathy.
“In the wake of this massacre, we believe God is calling us to understand that we must not simply identify the social and political impediments to ending these lethal spasms of violence in our country. We must reflect on and acknowledge our own complicity in the unjust systems that facilitate so many deaths, and, in accordance with the keeping of a holy Lent, repent and make reparations.”