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Bishop Sauls Proposes Resolution on Structure
Structural Reform Hat tip: Ann Fontaine at Episcopal Café
Survey: How Do You Engage the Bible?
Adapted from Anglican Communion News Service: As part of the Bible in the Life of the Church project we are undertaking a Communion-wide survey of the way Anglicans understand and engage with the Bible. We rightly say the Bible is central to our life together but we also engage with it and interpret it in […]
Bishops Issue Teaching on the Environment
From the Episcopal Church’s NewsLine: A Pastoral Teaching from the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church Quito, Ecuador September 2011 We, your bishops, believe these words of Jeremiah describe these times and call us to repentance as we face the unfolding environmental crisis of the earth: How long will the land mourn, and the […]
Bishop Nominees Discuss Eucharistic Practice
As the Diocese of Central Florida searches for its fourth bishop, seven nominees reflect its primarily evangelical identity. Both Anglo-Catholic and broad-church piety also are evident, but the nominees’ answers to questions posed by the diocese’s standing committee leave few doubts on what they believe about blessing same-sex couples or offering the elements of Communion […]
Chane, Delegation Press for Hostages’ Release
From The Associated Press: A delegation of U.S. Christian and Muslim leaders returned from Iran Monday disappointed they could not immediately secure the release of two Americans jailed as spies for more than two years, but optimistic their release was imminent. … John Chane, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, said the delegation also met with some […]
Barry Stopfel: Righter ‘Chose Love over Doctrine’
The Rt. Rev. Walter Cameron Righter fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, but among Episcopalians he may be best known for his sojourn with the Court for the Trial of a Bishop. Righter, who was the seventh Bishop of Iowa, died Sept. 11 at his home in Export, east of […]
Here’s Your Mitre, What’s Your Hurry?
News Analysis The blogosphere is abuzz about a Daily Telegraph article Sept. 10 saying that Rowan Williams, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, intends to leave office next year for a return to Cambridge University, where he taught from 1980 to 1986. Naturally enough Lambeth Palace is not commenting on the story. Nor are there indications […]
Pittsburgh Seeks Nominees
Members of the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s Search/Nominating Committee write that they will receive names until September 30, and add: Our recommendations for a slate of nominees will be submitted to the Standing Committee before January 15, 2012. Following the publication of that slate, there will be a three-week period for nomination by petition before the […]