What does it mean to have a “manner of life [that] presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead to further strains on communion?” A priest blogging from the “Anglican Underground” wryly tackles the question and even offers a modest proposal to resolve the ambiguity.
The congregation of Southland Christian Church is being asked to send letters of love and support to troubled pop star Britney Spears, described by the pastor as having made “devastating life choices.”
Episcope points us to an article about Corporal Ciara Durkin, a National Guard soldier serving in Afghanistan who was found dead from a gunshot wound last month. Durkin, a lesbian and an Episcopalian, “was killed on a secure U.S. military base, and according to her family she had told them prior to her death that she had concerns for her safety and that they were to push for an investigation if anything happened to her.”
It’s tough to walk with God when you have all of these options staring you in the face. I think the last thing the Christian community needs is another person who says they have it all together, a 12-step process for being perfect. That doesn’t exist. I can help people by being honest.
The man whose ordination led to changes in the National Canons has died at 95. David Salmon was the first Athabascan to be ordained an Episcopal priest.
A saint has died. The Rev. Bill Richardson, priest in New Orleans, who reached out to offer Christ to all people.
As an American Episcopal priest, however, I feel that no one is looking at the real issue, which is not to get the archbishop to come on board the gay world cruise, but rather to deal with far more critical issues at local and regional levels. It’s really not up to Rowan to make everything all right. Why should we demand that our spiritual leaders become supermen?
The publication of personal letters by Mother Teresa to Jesus, her spiritual director, a few clergy, and her bishop–letters that she specifically asked to be destroyed–raises ethical questions. The letters acknowledge God’s absence in her spiritual life for some fifty years and contrast her public persona to the private reality but this is immaterial. What right does Mother Teresa’s spiritual director have to release letters that Mother Teresa wrote either to or for him?
The New York Times has news today that the noted children’s author and active episcopal layperson and speaker had died at the age of 88.
Early this morning, Politico author Andrew Glass wrote a tribute to Michael Deaver, who passed away Aug. 18. Deaver’s funeral had been scheduled for today to allow people interested in attending to return from vacations and whatnot. No one, least of all Deaver, realized just how many people would want to come.