Desmond Tutu today issued an impassioned plea to the international community to take action on behalf of Syria. From the Elders Blog:
“This violence is our fault. It’s not the women’s fault, We have been the violent gender over the centuries, and we must own up to it. Tradition has enabled the action we see around us, and we’ve created those traditions. The culture of male violence has only been perpetuated by locker room talk, radio talk shows, video games, how fathers talk to sons, and our inability to deal with anger living deep inside.” ~Mayor Mike Rawlings
enemies list. Among the names on the list are former Presiding Bishop Ed Browning and the Washington Office of the Episcopal Church Center. See list
The Rt. Rev. James Curry, bishop of Connecticut
As the National Cathedral, we are a visible faith community in a symbolic building. …. We represent what is best in American civic life—we stand at the intersection of faithful and civic values. It is vital that we use our visibility and our symbolic role to keep the need for gun control squarely in the public eye. …. We can make Washington National Cathedral a visible focus of our shared commitment and so help end our national tragic scourge of gun violence.
The Executive Board of the Diocese of Virginia has filed the following resolution: A Response to Gun Violence for consideration at the diocese’s
From the Anglican Communion News Service – a request of prayer for Northern Ireland: From The Rt Revd Harold Miller, Bishop of Down and Dromore