Saturday, May 30, 2015

Bishops take stock after Ireland’s gay-marriage landslide

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From The Church Times- SAME-SEX couples are likely to be able to marry in the Irish Republic as soon as the autumn, after the government p...

What happened to online churches?

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From Christian Today (Not sure if this is a parody or not)- I'm outside the cathedral having a few problems with my body. Currently it...

Canadian churches still overcoming guilt about residential schools

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From Canada- Downtown Vancouver’s churches are coming together for a rare joint service and other special observances on Sunday to show th...

A Providence Slavery Center in Old Episcopal Cathedral

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From Rhode Island Public Radio- Rhode Island’s Episcopal Church is about to unveil plans for a museum and teaching center dedicated to the ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

The Truth of the Gospel, the Gospel of 'Truthiness' and the Future of the Anglican Communion

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From Australia- The Anglican video journalist Kevin Kallsen, together with George Congar (an Episcopal priest from Florida) post a weekly ...

Anglican Church launches Namugongo water bottling plant

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From Uganda- The Anglican Church has commissioned the construction of the Namugongo water bottling plant worth sh 500m. The Bishop of Nami...

Presiding Bishop moderates WCC panel on peace, security in the Congo

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From ENS-  The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is ranked among the world’s poorest countries, and since the former Belgian colony fell ...

Our Episopal Default Future is a Racket We Should Divest

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From The Bishop of Texas- So lets go back and think a bit about our Episcopal Church (or any denomination thinking about how to structure ...

An Appreciation of a Memorial to the Church

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From The Episcopal Herald- In 2012, a group of General Convention Convention deputies, bishops, and others, gathered to reflect on the tim...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

St. James congregation begins search for new home

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From Los Angeles- When Bill Kroener relocated with his wife from the East Coast to Newport Beach in 2006 he had no desire to join the Angl...

Bishop Of Episcopal Diocese of Western Mass Completes Pilgrimage

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From Western Mass- The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts is expected to cross the finish line of his 170-mile pilgr...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

10 Reasons Even Committed Church Attenders Are Attending Church Less Often

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From Carey Nieuwhof- I t comes up in a surprising number of conversations these days. And no one’s quite sure how to respond to it. The is...

What difference will women bishops make? Quite a lot, it seems...

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From Christian Today-- A leading witch and herbalist shared a Church of England platform last night with other women religious leaders inc...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Md. Episcopal Diocese Chooses Replacement For Defrocked Bishop

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From NPR- RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: A trial is set to begin next week for a defrocked Episcopal bishop. Heather Cook faces more than a dozen c...

Orthodox Church of Antioch: the West feigns empathy for a problem of its own making

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From Levant Report- There’s been renewed American media coverage and di scussion of the Middle East’s Christian population as a result of...

Responses to Ireland’s Vote

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From The Living Church- An overwhelming vote for same-sex marriage in the Republic of Ireland has drawn a careful response from Church of ...

How ArchBishop Chukwuma, armed thugs attacked us – MD Enugu Housing Corporation

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From Nigeria- The Managing Director of the Enugu State Housing Development Corporation, Mr. Emeka Onah, on Monday alleged that the ArchBis...

Is Christianity dying out?

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From Alabama- The finding that fewer Americans are identifying as Christian raises several questions, among them, Why, and also, Does it m...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Lost boy of South Sudan to bishop: religious leader returns to refugee camps

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From Australia- He was about 11 years old when bloody war arrived on his doorstep. Militias murdered his father and burnt down their vill...

Is the UK still a Christian country?

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From The BBC- Are we losing our religion? The answer for the UK seems to be "Yes", while the answer for the developing world is ...

Anglican Archbishop begs Amaechi, Wike to resolve their differences

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From Nigeria- Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Niger-Delta North, Most Rev’d. Ignatius Kattey, yesterday urged the outgoing Governor ...

What I learnt from 46 consecutive days in church

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From The BBC- For the Lent just gone by, I resolved to go to church every day. I'm a Catholic, so it would be Mass every day for more ...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Britain still deeply divided because of Henry VIII reformation, says Cambridge prof

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From The Telegraph- Britain will never be a united nation because rifts created during the reformation, in the time of Henry VIII, are sti...

Gay marriage will split the Catholic Church

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From The Spectator UK- Ireland, for so long the most overtly Catholic state in Western Europe, has voted for gay marriage by a stupendous ...

Column: Is Christianity Moribund?

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 From New Hampshire- Several days from now, at the invitation of the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, I will head to Washington t...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Michael Palin: my seven of the best (Churches)

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From The Church Times- CHURCHES, of one kind or another, have played important roles throughout my life, although, I must admit that I am ...

Former archbishop of Canterbury weighs in on fundamentalist threat

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From Toledo- The Right Rev. and Right Hon. George Carey includes among his passions his wife, Eileen; the Barclays Premier League football...

Detroit area 'Lutherpalians' blend faiths

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From Michigan- On a recent evening, Andrew Seng dressed up in a suit to officially become a Lutheran and an Episcopalian. The 16-year-old ...

Jon Meacham: Keep the Feast

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From The Living Church- At the largely full St. Jerome’s Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, historian and journalist Jon Meacham delivered a...

Editorial: Questions for the Bishop-Elect (Dallas)

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From The Cafe- The Diocese of Dallas last week elected George Sumner to be their next bishop, effective with his consecration. As with a...