The Huge Cultural Shift That’s Helping Trump Win Evangelicals

From Politico-

It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. Donald Trump curses like a bond trader. He mocks the disabled. He expresses no need for God’s forgiveness. He seems about as familiar with the Bible (“Two Corinthians”) as ordinary Americans are with the loopholes of the IRS tax code that Trump delights in threading. “The Art of the Deal,” his campaign biography by default, is a human billboard for pride and lust. “I’m a greedy person,” he told an Iowa audience, “I’ve always been greedy.” He’s wrong for evangelicals on the issues, on theology, on piety, and most of all on “values,” the buzzword of the culture wars over the past half-century.

Trump’s opponents, meanwhile, have devoted their careers to tailoring their resumes for values voters. Cruz is the pious son of a traveling evangelist; Rubio, a staunch Catholic who won’t cotton to abortion even in cases of rape and incest; and Kasich, a member of an ultra-conservative Anglican denomination that went its own way after the Episcopal Church consecrated a gay bishop.
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/the-huge-cultural-shift-thats-helping-trump-win-evangelicals-213729

Mississippi notified of successful canonical consent process

 From ENS-

The Office of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has notified the Diocese of Mississippi that Bishop-Elect Coadjutor Brian R. Seage has received the required majority of consents in the canonical consent process.

As outlined under Canon III.11.4 (a), the Presiding Bishop confirmed the receipt of consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction, and has also reviewed the evidence of consents from a majority of standing committees of the Church sent to her by the diocesan standing committee.

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http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2014/08/26/mississippi-of-successful-canonical-consent-process/

Puerto Rico diocese names four nominees for bishop

From ENS-

The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Puerto Rico has announced a slate of four nominees to run for election as the next bishop.

They are:

The Rev. José A. Peña Muñoz, Diocese of Puerto Rico
The Rev. Pola Fernandez Rosalí, Diocese of Puerto Rico
The Rev. Luis F. Padilla, Diocese of Puerto Rico
The Rev. Juan Carlos Restrepo, Diocese of Colombia

A petition process for submitting additional candidates will run until July 15.

The new bishop will be elected during an Election Assembly on Sept. 7 at the Ponce Hilton Hotel in Puerto Rico. The ordination is scheduled for Nov. 23.

Further details about the diocese and the election of its new bishop are available here.
The bishop-elect will succeed the Rt. Rev. David Alvarez, who has been bishop of Puerto Rico since 1989 after having served as bishop coadjutor for more than two years.

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/07/08/puerto-rico-diocese-names-four-nominees-for-bishop/

Committee seeks nominees to join in church governance

From ELO-


Nominations for membership on seven bodies or positions to be elected at the Episcopal Church's General Convention in 2012 are now being accepted by the Joint Standing Committee on Nominations.

Bishops, priests, deacons and lay persons may be nominated, according to a press release from the church's Office of Public Affairs. The nominees are not required to be current or former General Convention deputies.

The elections will be held during the 77th meeting of General Convention July 5 - 12, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Deadline for nominations is February 22, 2011.

The positions up for election are:
Disciplinary Board for Bishops: two lay persons and two priests or deacons elected by the House of Deputies; 10 bishops elected by the House of Bishops; six-year terms.

Executive Council: six lay persons, two priests or deacons, two bishops; six-year terms.
General Board of Examining Chaplains: three lay persons, three faculty members of theological seminaries or other educational institutions, three priests or deacons with pastoral cures or specialized ministries, two bishops; six-year terms. (House of Bishops elects; House of Deputies confirms.)

Secretary of the House of Deputies: one position; three-year term.
Treasurer of the General Convention: one position; three-year term.
Trustee of the Church Pension Fund: twelve positions; six-year terms.
Trustee of General Theological Seminary: two lay persons and two priests or deacons, elected by the House of Deputies; two bishops elected by the House of Bishops; three-year term.
More information about each office and details about service in each office are available here.

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80263_126174_ENG_HTM.htm