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The day the music died (er, was stolen)

April 1, 2016 5 Comments

An internationally recognized symbol of all that is Anglican today discovered that their massive pipe organ was missing.

Detroit Episcopal parish recognized for abolitionist, activist, and civil rights heritage

February 26, 2016 No Comments

The National Park Service has added St. Matthew’s and St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Detroit to its National Network to Freedom.

First Syrian refugees welcomed in Rhode Island

February 12, 2016 1 Comment

A Syrian refugee family flew into T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, on Thursday night and were greeted by a group of religious leaders and Syrian-Americans.

Most Church of England members back same-sex marriage

January 29, 2016 30 Comments

A new poll show that more members of the Church of England are in favor of marriage equality than are against it.

A round up of Primates meeting news and reaction

January 22, 2016 12 Comments

Here is a round up of news reports from The Church Times and elsewhere about the Primates meeting last week.

Columba Declaration between the Churches of England and Scotland leaves out the Scottish Episcopal Church

January 1, 2016 23 Comments

The Church of England and Church of Scotland have proposed an agreement that would allow the “national” churches in the United Kingdom. Problem is that apparently no one consulted the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Fear of a comparative religion class causes a local school to shut down

December 18, 2015 5 Comments

Augusta County, Virginia, schools were closed as a result of a furor stirred by a local church over the use of a state approved curriculum on comparative religion.

C.S. Lewis: Spy?

December 11, 2015 4 Comments

Everybody knows that Ian Fleming and John LeCarre based their literary creations on their serving time in British intelligence during World War II. Now we learn that C.S. Lewis also served MI6 during World War II.

Nippon Sei Ko Kai calls on Japanese government to end racial discrimination

December 4, 2015 28 Comments

Representatives from 20 Japanese churches, including the Nippon Sei Ko Kai have called on the Japanese government to “eliminate racial discrimination” in the country, come to terms with it’s colonial past, and to introduce laws to “outlaw hate speech and other forms of discrimination.”

Girl chorister to be “bishop for a day”

December 4, 2015 No Comments

This coming Sunday, on the feast of St. Nicholas, Bishop Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury, will hand off the mitre and crozier to a 12 year old member of the choir, following a tradition that dates back to the middle ages. For the first time in cathedral’s long history, that Chorister Bishop will be a girl.

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