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Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves urges reform of gun laws, NRA

December 22, 2012 No Comments

I have decided I can’t go there, joining the NRA, but I do want to say, if you are a member, and you are appalled that the freedom of gun owners now consistently and repeatedly outweighs an average citizen’s ability to safely go to school, a house of worship, the mall or the movies (just the big shootings this year), then please exercise your membership power and suggest that the lobby get to the table of reasonable negotiation.

A monk in the midst

December 17, 2012 No Comments

A new video feature A Monk in the Midst from the Diocese of Massachusetts features Bishop Tom Shaw, a brother of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, which has its monastery on Harvard Square. In this one, he speaks of how the church “wrecks” Christmas.

In sermons, Episcopal leaders in Washington call for gun control

December 16, 2012 No Comments

Everyone seems to live in terror of the gun lobby. But I believe the gun lobby is no match for the cross lobby. I don’t want to take away someone’s hunting rifle, but I can no longer justify a society that allows concealed handguns in schools and on the streets or that allows people other than military and police to buy assault weapons or that lets people get around existing gun laws by selling weapons to people without background checks at gun shows.

Atlanta bishop backs personhood amendment

November 29, 2012 16 Comments

The Right Rev. Robert Wright, the new Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta, has expressed support for the “personhood” amendment to the Georgia constitution,

Archbishops’ Council to restart process for women as bishops ASAP

November 28, 2012 No Comments

… the Council decided that a process to admit women to the episcopate needed to be restarted at the next meeting of the General Synod in July 2013.

Post-mortem on women as bishops in Church of England

November 27, 2012 3 Comments

Bishop John Gladwin said, “The public humiliation and deep wound inflicted on the Church of England by the vote in Synod has changed the whole landscape of this and many other issues. What a small minority has done is blow up the bridge to any compromise solution. The consecration of women into the episcopate has been moved from certainty to inevitability.”

China’s visionary bishop has died at 97

November 27, 2012 No Comments

The Rt. Rev. K.H.Ting, China’s visionary bishop has died at age 97 according to

Failure of the “common good”

November 25, 2012 5 Comments

it’s actually rather hard to find Biblical support for ‘Christianity unity’ or the common good. John 17:21 ‘they all may be one’ is made to do an awful lot of work. There’s rather a deal more in Jesus’ teaching about hating father and mothers, and setting brother against brother. ‘Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I came to bring not peace but a sword.’

Parliament pushes back on CoE bishop decision

November 24, 2012 14 Comments

In response to the vote Frank Field MP, a former member of the Synod, today tabled a Presentation Bill in Parliament which seeks to remove from the statute book the exemptions from the Equality legislation that the Church of England enjoys. If passed, the Bill would make it illegal for the Church of England to discriminate against women when appointing bishops, as they currently do.

Is schism a sin?

November 20, 2012 7 Comments

All churches, as all communities of ordinary people, are the places where we work out our relationship with God in Christ by striving for charity and clarity in our relationships with one another and our own self. Failing to do so and breaking relationships — becoming a schismatic by willful choice — is, then, now and has always been a sad state and, I’d say, a sin.

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