San Joaquin diocesan convention scheduled
Updated Wednesday morning The Lodi News reports on the upcoming Convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin. The Rt Rev. Jerry Lamb will be confirmed
Updated Wednesday morning The Lodi News reports on the upcoming Convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin. The Rt Rev. Jerry Lamb will be confirmed
Continuing Episcopalians filled Fresno’s Holy Family Church on March 14 for a get-acquainted meeting with Bishop Jerry Lamb in preparation for the March 29 special convention where they will be asked to confirm him as their provisional bishop.
It has a new Web site! Including a Church finder. Hat tip: Father Jake.
Audio and (some) video of the visit of the Presiding Bishop to the Diocese of South Carolina is now on YouTube. They are framed as
Bishop Iker and the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Fort Worth have released guidelines for churches to leave the diocese in the midst of
Bishop Mark Sisk of New York has written to members of his diocese about a story in The New Yorker magazine by Honor Moore in which she revealed that her father, the late Bishop Paul Moore, had an affair with a man during his marriage. Read the letter.
Episcopal Church leaders from various dioceses tell me that two important reasons for lawsuits to retain title to the property of parishes and dioceses that wish to leave the Church are fairness to the faithful remnant and to deter other parishes from leaving. Neither rationale withstands careful scrutiny from a Christian perspective.
Following on earlier news that the constitution and canons of the Southern Cone pose impediments to those who would propose to create US-based affiliates, the
The Living Church has examined a newly available English translation of the constitution and canons of the Southern Cone and sees impediments: The situation seems
John-David Schofield has written a letter to the Rev. Canon Brian Cox and the Rev. Canon Robert Moore, warning them that they are not to meddle in the affairs of the diocese. He paints them into a rhetorical corner, saying that if the argument was San Joaquin couldn’t remove itself from the Episcopal Church, that he and the diocese are still in TEC and that the canons’ presence was intrusive–but if they had legitimately left the diocese, then they were still intruding into another province’s diocese.