Three Rivers Episcopal

Thoughts and postings from an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Candidates Give Views on Poverty

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From The Living Church- Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and dozens of other Christian leaders concerned about poverty in the Unit...
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Author Anne Lamott talks about faith, politics, and her new grandson

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From Tennessee- Novelist Anne Lamott has built a career of writing hilariously and movingly about her own shortcomings: she's bossy, she...
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Faith grapples with art, lust

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From St. Louis- In the middle of the 16th century, Catholic bishops and theologians met sporadically in the city of Trento in northern Italy...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Bishop-elect of Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh to preach in city Sunday

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From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette- (Actually The Bishop-elect will be preaching in Ligonier that morning) Those eager to hear the next bishop...
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Orlando Anglican church first in Florida to become Catholic

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From Orlando- A College Park church will become the first in Florida to convert from Anglican to Catholic on Sunday under a process approved...

Bishops look to woman priest to salvage women-bishops legislation

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From The Church Times- THE House of Bishops, meeting this week to rescue the women-bishops legislation, has adopted an amendment suggested b...

Nation pays tribute to ‘world icon’ Neil Armstrong

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From ENS- The United States honored “the first human being to walk on another world” at Washington National Cathedral Sept. 13 with a combin...

Episcopal Priest Speaks of Need to Reclaim Liberalism Within Biblical Christianity

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From Christian Post- The Rev. John Liebler, an Episcopal priest, lost his faith in an ironic place: seminary. Studying for the priesthood in...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

How to kill off religion

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From Australia- WITH an ever dwindling number of churchgoers gracing the front door of their local parish, you'd think the major Christi...

Women bishops: Changes made to women bishops concessions

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From The BBC- Senior Anglican bishops have significantly watered down proposed concessions to those in the Church of England who are against...

Vandals Ransack Shoals Church, Pastor Speaks Out

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From Alabama- (with video) The Grace Episcopal Church in Sheffield got ransacked by vandals. Lamp posts were knocked down and every door go...

Happy ending for 1923 pipe organ from G’town church

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From Philadelphia- The journey that began in sadness five years ago for the 1923 E.M. Skinner Opus 407 pipe organ came to a happy conclusio...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Anglican Head Rowan Williams Admits Mistakes in Handling Homosexual Issues

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From Christian Today- Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, has admitted that he could ...

B.C. church gets windfall from sale of chairs

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From Vancouver- A financially challenged Anglican church in B.C. has received a remarkable $630,000 windfall after discovering that a pair o...

Neil Armstrong to Be Remembered Thursday With Public Memorial at National Cathedral

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From Washington DC- Neil Armstrong, the first person to step foot on the moon, will be remembered Thursday by NASA leaders and other dignita...

Grace in Built Form

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From The Living Church- Incarnation Center in Ivoryton, Connecticut, grew out of a late 19th-century “fresh air” ministry of the Church of t...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Archbishop offends smokers: Labor senator From:

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From Australia- A LABOR senator and marriage equality advocates have taken aim at Sydney's Anglican archbishop, describing as offensive ...

Bishop Blesses New Grace Church Boiler

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From Massachusetts (Must be a slow news day) The Reverend Gayle Elizabeth Harris, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts...

Episcopal Church Woos Latinos To Congregations

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From NPR- Latinos are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, but only 5 percent of all Hispanics attend a mainline Protestan...
Monday, September 10, 2012

Anglicans, Catholics could share in Chch

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From New Zealand- Christchurch could be put on the international map with a concept that could see Anglicans and Catholics share a place of ...
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Fed Up with “The Church”? Try a Different One (Maybe Even in the Mainline!)

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From Patheos- In a hugely popular post titled “Confessions of an Accidental Feminist,” blogger, author, and evangelical upstart (in a good w...

Repression of Christians in Pakistan

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From California- I chatted a few days ago with the Rev. Khushnud Azariah, the first Pakistani-born woman ordained as a clergy member. Azaria...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

AMIA Leader Responds to Archbishop Duncan's letter

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From David Virtue- We are writing this letter, and providing this documentation, in response to a letter recently written by Archbishop Bob ...

Retired reverend writes book on 'A New Way to be Human'

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From Washington state- He calls it "polishing the world." And "leaving a footprint of compassion." With his new book and...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

Connellsville school district covers Ten Commandments monument

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From The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review- School bus driver Carol Burkholder thinks it would be a sin to lose the Ten Commandments monument that h...

Archbishop of Canterbury: 'I could have done more'

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From The BBC- Dr Williams, who retires in December after 10 years, told the Daily Telegraph he could have engaged sooner with US bishops ove...

My job is too big for one man, says Archbishop of Canterbury

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From The Daily Telegraph- The outgoing leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans suggested a form of job share after admitting that he ...

Anglican church to appoint a 'presidential' figure

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From The Guardian- The Anglican church is planning to hand over some of the global duties of the Archbishop of Canterbury to a "preside...

The line between Religion and Politics

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From Minnesota- Religion plays an important part in the lives of many Americans, but how do those views transfer over when it comes to their...
Friday, September 7, 2012

No sign of compromise over women-bishops legislation

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From The Church Times- THE House of Bishops will meet next Wednesday to discuss the next step in the legislation to allow women bishops. The...
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