Saturday, August 3, 2013

A Reluctant Millennial On The State of Church

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From Religion Dispatches- Everyone is talking about “millennials” and the church. What started with a short piece on CNN by evangelical Ra...

Chinese woman arrested for vandalizing National Cathedral and four other Washington monuments is ordered to halfway house with ankle monitor

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From The Daily Mail (lots of photos) A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral has been ordered to a halfway house. ...

Youth groups give wildfire recovery a boost

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From Texas- Sixteen youth groups from across the state arrived in Bastrop County by the van load last week as part of Episcopal Diocese of...

Andrea Palpant Dilley: Change wisely, dude

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From Faith and Leadership- When I came back to church after a faith crisis in my early 20s, the first one I attended regularly was a place...
Friday, August 2, 2013

For Gary Hall, being dean of the National Cathedral started with comedy

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From The Washington Post- The Very Rev. Gary Hall, new dean of Washington National Cathedral, started out as a comedy writer for Steve All...

‘Collateral blessing’ desired

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From The Church Times- THE Church should be a "movement of prayer" which creates "collateral blessing", the Archbishop...

Episcopal church presiding bishop visits Alaska

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From Alaska-  For six days in July, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori traveled Alaska, getting a firsthand look ...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Andalusia native pens play, to present program

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From Alabama- Andalusia native Marianne Merrill Weber has vivid memories of August, 1965. She was living in Monroeville, awaiting the birt...
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Trinity Church Makes Changes

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From Florida- When Father Chris Rodriguez brought his family here from New Jersey last September becoming Trinity Episcopal Church’s new r...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Vatican orders former priest to leave St. Vincent Archabbey

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From The Trib- The Vatican has ordered a former Benedictine monk to leave St. Vincent Archabbey near Latrobe and has released him from his...
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For most, gay equality trumps religious objections

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From The Trib- In the wake of two favorable Supreme Court decisions, gay rights proponents got another boost last month with the release o...
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Pentecostal churches thriving in London as traditional denominations decline

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From The National Secular Society- Since 2005, there has been a 50% increase in the numbers of people attending Pentecostal Churches in Lo...

Ghanaian Bishop slams Desmond Tutu over gay comment

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From Ghana- The Anglican Archbishop of the Ashanti Region, Archbishop Yinkah Sarfo, has strongly condemned retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu...

Comments By Pope Francis And Archbishop Tutu Are On Gay Rights Not Clear

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From Ghana- Comments made by Pope Francis of the Catholic faith and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa regarding gay rights are to sa...

Kenya: Thika Anglican Diocese Chooses a New Bishop

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From Kenya- THE St Andrews Cathedral Thika celebrated the election Julius Njuguna Wanyoike was competing for the position with Prof J B Ik...

Woman found with can of green paint may have defaced Lincoln Memorial, prosecutors say

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From Fox- (with video)  A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral had a soda can of green paint with her when she wa...

North Carolinians stand up for the poor, vulnerable on Moral Mondays

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From ENS- It’s not every day a bishop receives a courtesy call from one of his priests letting him know he plans to get arrested. Episcop...

Pirates sweep Cardinals in doubleheader, lead NL Central

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In a slight change of pace I have to brag on the Bucs- (best team in Baseball) Andrew McCutchen clubbed his 15th homer of the season and t...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Welby: We must obey God not popular opinion

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From The Christian Institute- Popular opinion on gay marriage is “not a case for changing obedience to God”, the Archbishop of Canterbury ...
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Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby admits gaffe on “payday lenders,” renews attack

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From Reuters- The head of the Church of England has said he was embarrassed to find out that his organisation had invested indirectly in a...

Former Archbishop Desmond Tutu Says He Would Choose Hell Over 'Homophobic' Heaven

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From Christian Post- (with link to video) Speaking recently at the United Nation's launch of its "Free & Equal" campaig...

On Gay Priests, Pope Francis Asks, ‘Who Am I to Judge?’

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From The New York Times- For generations, homosexuality has largely been a taboo topic for the Vatican, ignored altogether or treated as “...

A Brief Theology of Zombies

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From The Living Church- Our world is fascinated with zombies. From revisionist writings in adult literature like Pride and Prejudice and Z...

Woman held on vandalism at Washington National Cathedral

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From The BBC- A woman has been arrested at the US National Cathedral in connection with an act of vandalism there, days after two other Wa...

Clergy, faithful work to understand pope’s message to take to streets and spread Gospel

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From The Washington Post- In word and deed during his trip to Brazil, Pope Francis put clergy and faithful alike on notice: Get energized,...

Legal battle over between two Bakersfield churches

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From San Joaquin (with video)  A local church is celebrating the return of its property and the end of a long legal battle this morning. S...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Memo to popes: For smash debut, head to Latin America

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From National Catholic Reporter- Before another ocean of Catholic youth on Rio de Janeiro’s famed Copacabana beach – dubbed for the occasi...

Legal battle ends over St. Paul's Episcopal Church

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 From San Joaquin The Episcopal Congregation of Saint Paul's is happy to have its church back after a long court battle. In 2007, cert...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Volunteers feeling good by providing food for impoverished nations

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From Mass- Before lunchtime on Saturday, Reggie Cooper did his part in helping to prepare meals for 10,000 families. Cooper was among 45 v...

The pope's real mission Can he reform the church without having it unravel?

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From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette- Catholicism, among the most tradition-bound religions, contains at its core a paradox that has become in...