But for me, the bottom line is not which denomination is winning members from the other, but rather whether we are doing the work that Jesus called us to do.
Bishop Sutton of Maryland today announced a settlement over real and personal property issues with an Anglican Use congregation, Mount Calvary in Baltimore.
“We were vacationing in Virginia and stopped for lunch at an F.W. Woolworth store. There were no seats left in the ‘colored’ section, so we sat in the ‘white’ section. We sat for 30 minutes without anyone serving us. We sat for another 15 minutes. That’s when my mother put on her stern look that dared anyone to give us trouble. We got menus and were served.
Put aside for the moment the nature of the liturgy and the music, and whether you find the people who attend a certain parish friendly. What are the unspoken (and possibly unintentional) ways in which a congregation communicates with you on a Sunday morning?
The Rev. Dr. Francis H. Wade is a retired Episcopal priest and former rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church on the grounds of the National Cathedral.
So if you were a rector, or the leader of an Episcopal congregation, this is the kind of story you’d want written about you and your church. It appeared in the Newark Star Ledger. Of course, you need to have a ministry that justifies the story.
… the congregation’s three main goals are to be good neighbors to the gay and lesbian community in Hillcrest, helping people who live in Mexico, and being responsible environmental stewards.
The Chapter of Trinity Cathedral in the city of Pittsburgh, PA has voted to end its dual relationship with both the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh and and the Anglican Church of North America. It is now exclusively the cathedral of the Episcopal diocese.
Christmas is about “a real pregnancy, a real mother and a real child. It’s about real anxiety, courage and hope”
Rational functionalism is the idea that we can uncover the mysteries of life and the universe mainly through rational thought and disciplined investigation. It is the tendency of denominations, their congregations, and their leaders to subscribe to a view of faith and church rooted in a restrictive, logic-bound theology that ignores the possibility of spiritual experiences and miraculous events.”