The Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish, bishop of the Diocese of Utah, has issued a statement calling the Episcopal congregations of her diocese to prayer
Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) offers support for the people affected by a destructive earthquake that struck the Ica region of Peru yesterday. The staff of ERD is in communication with ERD’s partners in Latin America to identify needs. ERD stands ready to provide emergency aid as needs are identified.
An exchange in a newspaper local to a CANA parish reveals a hole in the arguments of the defected congregation of their right to hold on to the historic Falls Church.
The violent death of Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels’ was remembered Saturday by 200 people who braved in 103-degree heat to honor the white seminary student
The New York Times published an article about the rather innovative and provocative theories of economic historian Gregory Clark about how humans made the transition from poverty to relative prosperity during the Industrial Revolution. Clark’s theory is that the surge in economic growth occured due to a change in human beings. Beginning in the late seventeenth century, we began to adopt behaviors that lead to more productivity:
There are a number of news stories out this evening about what the decisions made by the Evangelical Lutheran Church meeting in the final day
From an online report “After extensive argument over the plea of statutory immunity, the court was prepared to rule but suggested that the parties work out an agreement. After recess, the Diocese of Virginia and the Episcopal Church agreed to dismiss all of the vestry members and rectors as defendants without prejudice and the individuals agreed to honor any determination of the court regarding the plaintiffs’ property claims, subject to their rights of appeal of any adverse ruling.”
The Lutheran Assembly, meeting presently in Chicago has voted to defer any decision on the blessing of same-sex unions until its next meeting in 2009. The Assembly will however continue to discuss the issue of mandatory celibacy for clergy in such unions during the remaining two days of the present meeting.
Anglican bishops have met with the former president of Iran. The meeting with the new Bishop of Iran was a chance for him and other bishops from the Communion to speak of ways in which the Church and the Islamic government can work respectfully with each other in spite of their differences.
It’s not really news that godparenting has evolved into “a revered but blurry mix of religious and secular duty,” but The Tennessean has devoted an extended feature to describing the history and current context of the tradition, which aligns closely with infant or child baptism and traces back to around the 8th century, when Catholic doctrine decreed that one’s spiritual birth is distinct from one’s physical birth.