At Kanuga, House of Bishops meeting rolls along
March 27, 2011
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Olympia’s Greg Rickel asks people 19-35, “What makes you angry? Where do you find hope? What advice would you give the Church today?”
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What are bishops for?
March 21, 2011
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Understanding what a bishop is meant to be and do has become complicated. So many expectations are now heaped on the role: What person could possibly fulfill the wish list of ideal skills in our “profiles?” I can’t help shaking my head over it all.
Episcopal bishops chastise Israeli government in Dawani case
March 10, 2011
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Israel prides itself on being a democracy – the only one in the Middle East. Yet a true democracy adheres to the rule of law and defends the religious freedom of all persons. This has not been the case for Bishop Dawani, a Palestinian Christian.
Tutu inspires in San Francisco
March 9, 2011
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“All those who strut across the stage of the world as if they were invincible, they, too, without fail, will kiss the dust and become the flotsam and jetsam of history. A Berlin Wall tumbles down. Apartheid in South Africa gives way to democracy. The horrid, oppressive [Hosni] Mubarak steps down [in Egypt]. No situation could ever be described as hopeless.”
Bishop Geralyn Wolf to retire in 2012
March 5, 2011
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Bishop Wolf: ” I officially inform you of my intention to retire by the end of 2012, and hereby call for the election of my successor. By then, I shall be approaching my 66th birthday and the 36th year of my ordained ministry.”
NoMichigan has a bishop
March 2, 2011
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The Office of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has notified the Diocese of Northern Michigan that Bishop-Elect Rayford Ray has received the required majority of consents in the canonical consent process.
Light meets bushel in the Diocese of Albany
February 28, 2011
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Bishop William Love of the Diocese of Albany is in a quandary. The Presiding Bishop, who is extremely popular with the faithful, but not with Bishop Love, is coming to town. He can’t tell her to stay home–the visit is canonically mandated–but he doesn’t want her appearance to energize the moderate and progressive Episcopalians. What to do?
George Young III elected in East Tennessee
February 12, 2011
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Diocese of East Tennessee pending consents from the bishops and Standing Committees of the Dioceses of The Episcopal Church.
Bishop consents and another election today
February 12, 2011
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Late this week the Presiding Bishop’s office announce that two recent elections to the episcopate had received the necessary consents from the Standing Committees of
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