Just following the opening words – two people started yelling and screaming against the ordination. The Presiding Bishop remained calm and offered the opportunity to
“We will accomplish a lot more by being here, learning, hearing and responding about it and standing in solidarity with people suffering instead of taking the easy way out by saying let’s go meet someplace else,” said Arizona Bishop Kirk Smith.
Many transgender people serve faithfully in the congregations and ministries of our diocese, as lay people, as deacons and as priests. They are dedicated and loving parents, children, siblings, friends and community leaders. Again and again, we hear how they have struggled against incredible odds and pressures to be true to their identity as beloved children of God, made in the image of God.
The Rt. Rev. Barbara Harris speaks at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California
Yesterday we linked to Ruth Gledhill’s report on the imminent release of the draft legislation that will allow the Church of England to open their episcopate to their women priests. Today the full report has been posted.
Attorneys for the Episcopal Church and for Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison argued before an ecclesiastical appeals court … May 4 about whether the
The Court of Review for the Trial of a Bishop will hear a final appeal by Charles Bennison, former bishop of Pennsylvania. He was charged with covering up his brother’s sexual assaults of a teenage girl in the 1970s.
Bishop John Rabb announced yesterday to the Diocese of Maryland that come this Fall he will retire from the active ministry.
After full consultation, and on recommendation of Bishop William H. Love of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued an order for Restoration of Ordained Ministry for the Rt. Rev. Daniel W. Herzog, resigned (retired) Bishop of Albany.
Dr Wright, who will be 62 this autumn, is returning to the academic world, in which he spent the first twenty years of his career, and will take up a new appointment as Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.