Lead Story
New Calendar Marches On
- Thursday, July 5, 2012
By Douglas LeBlanc
General Convention’s Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy, and Church Music has endorsed continued trial use of Holy Women, Holy Men. During lengthy discussion July 5 of the proposed successor to Lesser Feasts and Fasts, numerous people testified that the text should be revised heavily.
PB&F Sorts Shrinking Budget
- Thursday, July 5, 2012
By Joe Thoma
Before General Convention held its first legislative sessions July 5, conversation on Independence Day centered on funding for outreach, evangelism and administration despite a shrinking budget.
Ordered Administration
- Tuesday, July 3, 2012
By Cheryl White
The diocese has been the organizational framework for the life of the Church throughout the ages.
Healthy Debate on Health Care
- Tuesday, July 3, 2012
By Lauren Anderson
Christian leaders have reached diverse conclusions about health-care reform and the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act stands the test of the Constitution.
Dallas: Stunned
- Monday, July 2, 2012
Standing Committee: “spurious complaints against bishops further demonstrate the urgent need to revisit the Title IV disciplinary Canons.”
ACI on Title IV
- Monday, July 2, 2012
The complaints are patently frivolous and should be dismissed at the outset.
+Daniel Martins on Title IV
- Monday, July 2, 2012
My principal concern was to not leave unchallenged the assertion that the Episcopal Church is a unitary hierarchical organism at all levels, and that the dioceses are entirely creatures of General Convention.
+William Love on Title IV
- Monday, July 2, 2012
To date, I have not seen a copy of the “complaint,” nor do I know who issued it, or what it says.
Spiritual Geographic
- Friday, June 29, 2012
By Michael B. Cover
We need to ask whether smaller dioceses present us with a problem to be solved or a parabolic challenge to be answered.
Credit Unions and Justice
- Thursday, June 28, 2012
By Steve Waring
Credit unions, a longtime ministry within the Episcopal Church, will become more prominent if General Convention approves Resolution A084.
