The Living Church
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“There’s almost no sign of life in Gaza at the moment, especially in the northern part of Gaza,” said Archbishop Hosam Naoum, primate of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East.
We must “go deep in the quest for rootedness,” which means seeing ourselves not as Americans alone but part of a transnational Christian movement transcending nation-state and patriotism in the narrowest sense.
There is an answer, an intervention, a sweeping litany of caring acts on behalf of the weak, all punctuated with the personal pronoun “I.”
This single congregation is larger than half the dioceses of the Episcopal Church.
“The outcome of this vote was met with gasps around the chamber, and a coordinated protest from the public gallery, with shouts that the synod was ‘serving Satan.’”
The diocese has endured years of conflict over same-sex marriage.
In addressing one of his favored themes, climate change, the Archbishop of Canterbury has invoked the name of Noah, who faced a cataclysmic flood thousands of years ago but found hope and God’s renewed blessings after the flood subsided.
The Archbishop of Canterbury floated the idea of early retirement, as he faced criticism from all directions.
