May 17, 2013
[Religion News Service – Washington, D.C.] Twenty-five top Christian leaders gathered in the U.S. city with perhaps the worst reputation for civil discourse May 15 and committed themselves to elevating the level of public conversation.
Meeting in a row house three blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the group spanned the Christian spectrum, and included officials from liberal churches and the most conservative of interest groups.
“The ground of our spiritual...
May 10, 2013
[Harvard Divinity School -- Press Release] The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2013: Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS ’86, of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Shenila Khoja-Moolji, MTS ’10, and Margaret R. Rose, MDiv ’79, both of New York, New York.
Julia Whitcavitch-DeVoy, MTS ’94, of Newton, Massachusetts,...
May 8, 2013
[Episcopal News Service] In one historic week, the Episcopal Church participated in two significant ecumenical events about climate change.
On April 27, 2013, the Climate Revival in downtown Boston gathered clergy and hundreds of Christians from across New England to participate in a morning and afternoon worship service in two historic churches – Old South Church and Trinity Church. Billed as “an ecumenical festival to embolden the renewal of Creation,” the Climate...
[Anglican Communion News Service] The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, the official body appointed by the two Communions to engage in theological dialogue, has held the third meeting of its new phase (ARCIC III), at the Mosteiro de Sao Bento, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (29 April–7 May 2013). This is the first time in its forty year history that ARCIC has met in Latin America, and, indeed, in the southern hemisphere.
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May 6, 2013
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[Episcopal News Service] The ancient Celts described Iona as a “thin place,” where the veil between heaven and earth is lifted, and where one might glimpse the divine.
For centuries pilgrims have traveled to this small island off the West coast of...
May 3, 2013
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[Episcopal News Service] Kevin Noone, Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (and a research scientist in atmospheric chemistry and physics at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University)...
May 2, 2013
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson (left), Church of Sweden Archbishop Anders...
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[Episcopal News Service] Mary Evelyn Tucker, a senior lecturer and senior research scholar at Yale University and a co-founder and co-director of its Forum on...
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[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Stephanie Johnson, Province 1 energy stewardship minister, reads “A statement to our Churches and to people of faith around the world” from the leaders of the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the Church of Sweden (...
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] The heads of three religious denominations – The Episcopal Church, theChurch of Sweden, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) – signed a...
