Writer Doug LeBlanc has wondered about the future of conservatives who remain in the Episcopal Church. He says the audio of a two-hour meeting that included Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and leaders of the Diocese of South Carolina offers encouraging signs.
Getting help for cyclone victims in Myanmar has been difficult, but one church in Utah has been in the country since the cyclone hit and has a very good relationship with the people there. Bishop Carolyn Tanner Irish of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah has been to Myanmar twice. The church has a sister diocese there, and this past February she took a group to distribute aid.
The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has produced a cogent media release for reporters covering the May 28 hearing on the constitutionality of the law at issue in the case involving the diocese and breakaway parishes that have joined Archbishop Peter Akinola’s Anglican Church of Nigeria.
The Rev. Dr. Jay Geisler, a member of the group of conservative clergy that declared to the diocese and its bishop that they intend to remain in The Episcopal Church, was invited to be guest speaker at a meeting of Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh meeting last week, and his visit occasioned a useful exchange of ideas, writes Lionel Deimel.
“Over the past four days, eight more religious denominations and judicatories, as well as the two other Virginia Episcopal dioceses have asked the Court to allow them to join the Amici Curiae brief supporting the Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church in recognizing that the §57-9 division statute is unconstitutional.”
In preparation for the second of the three phases of litigation between the parties in the property dispute between the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and the CANA churches, the parties have filed supplemental briefs. The trial on the constitutionality of the 57-9 stature is scheduled for May 28. Whatever the outcome of that trial, a third trial is scheduled for October to decide the ownership.
The light show we alluded to last week is up and running at the National Cathedral. But this is no ordinary light show–Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter paints the entire Cathedral facade using light. The results are stunning; the Washington Post has a gorgeous flash photo essay.
If you are going to be in the Washington D. C. area on June 7, please join us at the Diocese of Washington’s Evangelism Conference, featuring a keynote presentation by Brian McLaren, who gave a preview of his presentation in an interview with the Washington Window. You can register here.
Over the course of three days ending today, Lord Robin Eames, former Archbishop of Ireland, spoke at the Diocese of Virginia clergy conference on the subject of reconciliation. In his introduction, Bishop Peter Lee, recounted Lord Eames’ contributions for the church including the Eames Report (on women’s ordination), the Virginia Report, and the Windsor Report, and in the negotiations of peace in Northern Ireland.
We don’t typically promote local events, but this one seems particularly cool. For three nights beginning on May 9 the south and west faces of