Saturday, August 6, 2011

Lutheran church opts to switch sects

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From The Pittsburgh Tribune- St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church of Trauger has ended its relationship with the nation's largest Luther...

Kadugli Bishop Appeals to UN to Stop Sudanese Bombings

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From VOA- The Anglican bishop of Kadugli in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan state has appealed to the United Nations to send a fact-finding team t...

Pedal for Nets - bringing Skeeter Cheaters to Africa

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From Colorado- (with video) The inaugural Pedal for Nets charity bike ride is hoping to start something big with a small piece of netting. A...

Retired rector of Grace Episcopal Church dies after car accident in New Bedford

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From Mass.- The Rev. Philip C. Douglas, longtime rector of Grace Episcopal Church who retired from active ministry in 1988, died Thursday in...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Signs signs everywhere signs #31

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From my son-

Life for Zimbabwe Anglicans worsens with properties commandeered, priests arrested

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About Zimbabwe (from Pakistan) Clergy and pilgrims hoping to visit the Arthur Shearly Cripps Shrine last week were once again frustrated by ...

Return Of Maili Cross Called 'Blessing'

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From Hawaii (with video) A congregation in Maili is counting its blessings after its cross is returned, more than a year after it was stolen...

New rector at St. Francis Episcopal

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Congratulations Vanessa (Novato is just north o San Francisco)- On August 15 the Rev. Vanessa Glass begins her tenure as rector of St. Franc...

St. Paul's pipe organ being restored to its glory

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From Rochester NY- Being in charge of a $1.2 million project to restore the massive, 84-year-old organ at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

New assistant at St. Paul’s faced cultural shift in Anglican Church

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From Philadelphia- When Emmanuel Ato “Manny” Mercer, the new assistant rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, made the 5,70...

Former judge and her husband become ordained priests at Pleasant Lake church

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From Michigan- Susan Vandercook has had to scrap one of the skills she honed over many years — judging others. As a newly ordained Episcopal...

A church in exile: Zimbabwe's Anglicans resilient amid ongoing intimidation from Mugabe's oppressors

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From ENS- A crippled nation at the mercy of tyrannical leaders, Zimbabwe is home to a persecuted yet resilient community of Anglicans who...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Muslims Seize Christian Burial Sites in Tanzania

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From Tanzania- Influential Muslims on this East African island have begun building what appears to be a hotel on a 100-year-old burial site ...

‘Uncle John’ Stott helped to build a worldwide evangelical movement

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From The Globe and Mail- “An evangelical,” said John Stott in a 2006 interview, “is a plain, ordinary Christian” – someone devoted to the pe...

Alabama Churches Unite to Halt Anti-Immigration Law

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From Alabama- Today the leaders of the Episcopal, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches of Alabama filed suit in federal court to stop the e...

After 125 Years, Still Going Strong: St. Luke's Fair

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From Long Island- It started 125 years ago: a small fair on the lawn of St. Luke's Episcopal Church that raised $950 for the community....

Heard of a Language Called Christian?

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From Christian Post- If you talk about the rapture or salvation, or say you are blessed or favored, or let’s say you associate belief with d...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Shawl ministry offers comfort for those in need

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From California- Maria Norman came to the prayer shawl ministry at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Hemet through a near-death e...

Helping the hungry

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From Idaho- The Bible says to feed the hungry, so that's what Coeur d'Alene's St. Luke's Episcopal Church did. St. Luke...

Area pastor heading to Tanzania to help kids

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From Rochester NY- Dahn Gandell believes in sustainable change. The 45-year-old Perinton resident is practicing what she preaches as she emb...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Local Church's labyrinth, stations of the cross allow for prayer in the open air

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From Michigan- Sometimes, whispering a prayer on bended knee in a sanctuary or chapel doesn’t cut it. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Wyomi...

Credo: Mark Lewis

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Fron D.C. The Rev. Mark Lewis is married. He also wants to become a Catholic priest. Lewis is the rector of St. Luke's in Bladensburg, t...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

The kingdom of God is bigger than my idolatry

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From Kansas- More and more, we live in a world of extremes. It is a place where one faction of people will oftentimes rebuke and reject anot...

Church Lady: Camp Able – An emotional experience

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From South West Florida- On July 21 the Church Lady went on a road trip with some folks from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Our destination wa...
Friday, July 29, 2011

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More on John Stott From The Telegraph- Stott was rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place, in the West End of London from 1950 to 1975, and...

Ordinariate welcomes first priest in Scotland

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From Indy Catholic- The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham welcomed its first Scottish priest on Sunday. The former Episcopal ...

St. Peter’s members to build home of love for orphaned South Africans

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From The Washington Post- Twenty-seven members of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Arlington County are traveling to South Africa this week o...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Prayers unanswered as Anglicans brace for more cuts

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From Australia- THE Anglican Church's Sydney diocese faces another year of belt tightening and cuts to community services after its inve...

Atheists sue to block 'WTC cross' from 9/11 memorial

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From USAToday- Atheists have sued to prevent cross-shaped steel girders from the destroyed World Trade Center towers from being included in ...

Should Religion Play a Role in Politics?

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From The New York Times- (Gary Cutting teaches at Notre Dame) As our electoral process has begun to accelerate, questions about religious af...