Saturday, September 16, 2017

Survey finds most people who call themselves Anglican never read the Bible

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From Premier- Most people who call themselves Church of England Christians never read the Bible. That is one of the findings of a survey c...

More ructions in Anglican church over same-sex marriage

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From South Africa- The furore over the Anglican church’s decision to reject same-sex marriage looks likely to intensify, with its Pretoria...

St. Peter's bones? Maintenance worker makes surprising discovery

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From Catholic News Agency- During routine restoration of a nearly 1000 year-old church, a worker discovered bone fragments in clay pots – ...

Episcopal Relief & Development Responds to Urgent Needs in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Irma

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From Relief Web- Episcopal Relief & Development is supporting emergency relief efforts in Culebra and Vieques, two islands in Puerto R...

Shape of Indigenous church on the table at Pinawa meeting

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From Anglican Journal- About 70 Anglicans from across Canada are gathering in Pinawa, Man., this weekend for a major consultation on the n...
Friday, September 15, 2017

How Many Churches Does America Have? More Than Expected

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From Christianity Today- An estimated 30,000 congregations shut their doors in the United States from 2006 to 2012. Yet a recent study fin...

Massachusetts Catholic, Episcopal bishops urge Congress to act on DACA reform

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From Massachusetts- Catholic and Episcopal bishops in Massachusetts issued separate statements calling on Congress to remedy President Don...

Marriage Rites: Extend, Adopt, or Punt

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From The Living Church- The Episcopal Church Task Force on the Study of Marriage has reported on its latest meeting. The Task Force on the...
Thursday, September 14, 2017

GAFCON accuses church official of 'provocative, inaccurate and misleading' comments

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From Premier- GACFON, the worldwide conservative group of Anglicans, has hit back at the secretary general of the Anglican Communion after...

Christians beat FEMA, and in so doing, tame Big Government

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From The Washington Post- Faith-based groups — Christian nonprofits, specifically — have been busy bees of late, providing more aid to hur...

Faith Groups Provide the Bulk of Disaster Recovery, in Coordination with FEMA

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From Sojourners- If you donate bottles of water, diapers, clothing, or any other materials to hurricane victims in Texas or Florida, your ...

After Montana church vandalized with swastika, parish responds with pink hearts, messages of love

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From ENS- Hate symbols showed up seemingly overnight as graffiti on the sign in front of St. James Episcopal Church in Bozeman, Montana. B...

Is The Apocalypse Coming? No, It Isn't!

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From NPR- The Sign, a documentary directed, shot and produced by Josh Turnbow and Robert Dvoran and set to air Thursday, addresses whether...

Damnation, American style: How American preachers reinvented hell

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From Salon- Among the many congratulatory letters George Washington received after assuming the presidency was one from “the Convention of...

Hipster Priest Consecrates Fresh Batch Of Seasonal Pumpkin Spice Eucharist

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A little humor to start the day- Just in time for the start of Fall, local hipster priest Fr. Kale Adams announced this morning that he ha...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Priest caught using a dead parishioner’s Blue Badge for parking

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From I News- A priest who was caught fraudulently using a dead parishioner’s Blue Badge has been fined and ordered to carry out 200 hours ...

A Puzzling Editorial

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From The Living Church- As committed ecumenists, we would like to thank The Living Church for its attention to the proposed full communion...

‘Christian America’ Dwindling, Including White Evangelicals, Study Shows

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From Sojourners- The future of religion in America is young, non-Christian, and technicolor. Almost every Christian denomination in the U...

A Reflection from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

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From The Episcopal Church- (with video) The Presiding Bishop’s reflection follows: Whether it is the pain of the events of August 12 in Ch...

Priests-in-training to be given glossaries because they struggle to understand the Book of Common Prayer

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From The Telegraph- Priests-in-training are to be given glossaries to help them understand the Book of Common Prayer for the first time be...

Harvey, Irma, Jose … and Noah

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From The New York Times- Is there anything we can learn from hurricanes, storms and floods? People have been asking that question for thou...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Could Father Mychal Judge Be the First Gay Saint?

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From Slate- Nearly three decades later, Judge is best known as the fire department chaplain who died on Sept. 11, 2001, after rushing into...

‘Engendering opposition is a sign of being effective.’

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From Time (with video)- I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, spending lots of time in the mountains and the islands in Puget Sound just fas...

A Letter from Dean Kelly Brown Douglas

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From EDS- It is with excitement that I join you as dean as we begin this new season of our life together as EDS at Union. I am humbled by ...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Australia gay marriage debate highlights church divisions

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From Australia- As Australia prepares for a contentious postal vote on legalising gay marriage, fierce divisions have emerged within the c...

Gathering of Episcopal bishops comes to Fairbanks

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From Alaska- A worldwide assembly of Episcopal bishops will come to Alaska for the first time this month for a series of meetings and bles...

St. James Episcopal vandalized, neighbors respond with messages of love

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From Montana- The St. James Episcopal Church on the corner of West Olive and Tracy was vandalized late last night. Neighbors of the Church...

Instruments of Communion: The Primates’ Meeting, the ACC, and their predecessors

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From The Living Church- One reason why the issues that have divided Anglicans over the last 50 years have proved so difficult is that they...

Update from the Bishop of Cuba

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From Cuba- I am writing to you before there is no electricity here in Havana, it is twelve noon. The weather is deteriorating, the boardwa...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

OF SMELLY MONKS AND ANNOYING NEIGHBOURS

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From Comment- As a high school student, I went through a brief and rather misguided period of fascination with the spiritual disciplines. ...