An Anglican Archbishop who also served as New Zealand’s first Maori Governor-General, has died. He was 78. Sir Paul Reeves was the Primate of New
The Very Reverend June Osborne, Dean of Salisbury, gives the sermon during the service for the
Like Arizona’s controversial SB1070, the Alabama measure aims to identify, prosecute and deport undocumented persons. It empowers law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of people they lawfully stop and whom they suspect are in the country illegally and mandates that prospective employers use E-verify, the U.S. government’s electronic verification system for employers to check the legal status of potential workers.
…gay and lesbian Episcopalians will be allowed on Sunday to get married by priests in Brooklyn and Queens, but not in the Bronx or Manhattan or on Staten Island; in Syracuse but not in Albany.
The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan, the suffragan bishop of Alabama was elected the 11th diocesan bishop of that diocese on the first ballot in special convention today.
The civil suit against the Roman Catholics, not The Episcopal Church, contends that the results of the Catholics’ psychological testing in 2000 showed that Parry was a serial abuser who was likely to offend again, and that this information was shared with the Episcopal Church prior to his ordination. “I’m really skeptical that the report ever existed. But if it did, we’ve never seen it,” said Edwards.
Rand challenged me to reject sloppy thinking, to apply reason meticulously, not least when dealing with culturally mandated assumptions. But that very commitment to reason gave me tools that led, much to my surprise, to a critique of Objectivism itself. Indeed, Rand’s test of reason points to God himself.
The Rt. Rev. Edward L. Salmon, Jr., a former bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina, will take the reins July 1.
What carried the day were two of the most powerful principles in U.S. society: equality under the law and religious freedom. Americans, including New York legislators, find it difficult to resist a claim to the same rights as other citizens. At the same time, we are far more ready than, say, Europeans, to carve out exemptions on religious grounds.
The Very Rev. Sam Candler, dean of St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta was not elected Bishop of Washington on Saturday. Here is the gracious way