Saturday, May 20, 2017

'Please help stop these people starving to death' Archbishop aide pleads for Anglicans to act against famine

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From Christian Today- A senior adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury called on UK Christians to take part in this Sunday's Day of Pr...

Christ Church Cathedral: What if it has to be modern?

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From New Zealand- Stonewalled. Nope, the Bishop won't be taking questions. Neither will the Church Property Trustees (CPT). Even those...

Bishop Sean Rowe: Follow the truth

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From Northwest PA- A leader who bears false witness — who does not acknowledge that we are bound to one another and must care for one anot...

Church of Scotland expected to back same-sex marriage

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From The BBC- The Kirk's General Assembly - gathering in Edinburgh - will be asked to approve more work on how such weddings could tak...

Bishop Gene Robinson headed to Chautauqua Institution

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From Chautauqua NY- Retired Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson will be joining the leadership of the Chautauqua Institution. Robinson will ass...

Episcopal Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary agree on collaboration

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From ENS- Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) and Union Theological Seminary announced May 19 that they have signed an agreement that will all...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Religious statistics: 'Nones’ numerous but a committed Anglican core is flourishing

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From The Church Times- THERE are reasons to be hopeful in a new report that highlights high rates of “nonversion” — the loss of people b...

EVEN AMID CONTROVERSY, “MY SOUL STILL SINGS,” SAYS UMC’S FIRST LESBIAN BISHOP

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From Religion Dispatches- The first out lesbian bishop consecrated by the United Methodist Church has long known that her path would lead ...

Building Our House on Solid Rock: Messages We Don’t Intend to Communicate

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From The Diocese of Washington- It’s said that we only have one opportunity to make a first impression. That’s something I think about w...

Montreal Is Taxing Churches

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From Patheos- No more religious exemptions, Montreal is taxing churches: For the first time churches in Montreal are being forced to pay t...

Priest Stabbed During Mass at Mexico City Cathedral

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From National Catholic Register- A Mexican priest is in “delicate but stable” condition after being stabbed in the neck Monday evening at ...

Episcopal, ELCA presiding bishops issue joint statement calling for prayer, fasting for hunger awareness

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From ENS (with video links)  Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton of the Evangelical Luthe...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

New Primate for the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East

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From Anglican News- Archbishop Suheil Dawani of the Diocese of Jerusalem has been elected as the next Primate of the Province of Jerusalem...

How fares Protestantism upon its 500th anniversary? Depends on where you look

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From Get Religion (with lots of links) Ed Stetzer of Wheaton College (Illinois) furrowed many a brow with an April 28 Washington Post warn...

Church's view on homosexuality 'needs work' - Mpho Tutu van Furth

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From New Zealand- Mpho Tutu van Furth knows plenty about forgiveness, having been booted from the Anglican Church on account of her homose...

This woman preacher is schooling the Christian boys club on the crucifixion

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From Colorado (via RNS)- If you are embedded in a Catholic or conservative Protestant community, you might assume that theology is a man’s...

Church organist fired for 'Heil Trump' graffiti

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From Christian Post- A church organist who sprayed 'Heil Trump' graffiti on the walls of his own episcopal church in Indiana days ...

‘I’m Going to Trust Him’

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From The Living Church- The Rev. Jacob Worley called a diocesan synod “an amazing experience of the Holy Spirit” when he was elected Bisho...

Let All Mortal Flesh: A Zen priest attends an Episcopalian Mass

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From Patheos- This past Sunday I attended an Episcopalian mass celebrated in a tiny chapel in West Cornwall, Connecticut. Eighteen of us ...

UMC bishops ponder full communion with Episcopal Church

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From The United Methodists (and others) The United Methodist Church is studying a draft proposal to establish full Communion relationship ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

CONSECRATION OF RENEGADE ANGLICAN BISHOP NOT INTENDED TO SPLINTER COFE

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From The Tablet- An Anglican church in Newcastle has insisted its decision to consecrate a renegade bishop is not intended to split the An...

Episcopal Church Launches Racial Healing Program to Become 'Beloved Community'

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From Christian Post- "Part of this work is actually to help to build bridges — bridges that will connect people not only through thei...

Healing a House Divided: An Interview with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

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From Religion and Politics- In April, Washington University in St. Louis welcomed to campus the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, the presiding ...

Scripture connects environmental destruction with idolatry, says bishop

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From Anglican Journal- The environmental threat posed by today’s “principalities and powers” is one of the great spiritual issues of our t...

THE OXFORD MOVEMENT’S SACRAMENTAL INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE

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From The Living Church- In my last post, I began exploring how the Oxford Movement’s understanding of spiritual renewal was based upon a s...

The rationalist way of death

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From The New Humanist (UK) Rationalists and secularists in the old plain style were very clear about death and dying, or at least they tri...

Trump is evangelicals’ ‘dream president.’ Here’s why.

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From The Washington Post- Even in an era of marriage diversity, it remains the most unlikely match: President Trump and his loyal evangeli...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Baltimore Sun skips key angle in DUI bishop case: Why was Heather Cook using that cellphone?

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From Get Religion- There are limits to how much of a recap a given news story can provide. The Baltimore Sun is not The New Yorker magazin...

The Chief Rabbi And The Archbishop: Pushing Beyond Interfaith Clichés

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From Jewish Week- It was moving to see one of the world’s most important Christian leaders stand at Yad Vashem earlier this month, declari...

Archbishop of Canterbury's praise for "bridge-building" Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem

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From ACNS- The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby,  has concluded his longest pastoral visit to a diocese outside the Church of Englan...