May 8, 2013
[Episcopal Diocese of Washington] This blog is the first a series on ministry with young adults that the Episcopal Diocese of Washington will be featuring in May.
Like many of you, I’ve read the studies that document the decline in church attendance among young adults. And while I am aware of the anxiety this can often create, I am uncertain as to how helpful anxiety is at resolving a problem. Almost every Sunday, I visit a different parish within our...
[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.
...[Anglican Communion News Service] The president of South Sudan has appointed the archbishop of the Episcopal Church of Sudan to chair the national reconciliation committee “trying to heal the mental wounds”’ in the world’s newest nation after 40 years of war.
Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul was appointed by Salva Kiir, who was facing many questions from the public and the media about why the he had earlier suspended the “much-needed” national reconciliation...
The Trinity Window is pieced together in Christchurch’s Transitional Cathedral. Photo...
May 7, 2013
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] An agreement has been completed between the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS) and Lyceum Kennedy French American School to lease the Second Floor of the Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Avenue in New York City.
Currently located at 225 E 43rd St in New York City, this lease provides an expansion of space for the school....
A TESTIMONY OF HOPE
THE FOURTH CONSULTATION OF ANGLICAN BISHOPS IN DIALOGUE
The fourth consultation among Canadian, American and African bishops took place in Cape Town South Africa from Thursday May 2nd to Sunday May 5th 2013. We met in the context of worship, prayer, Scripture reading and the breaking of bread. Through the presentation of papers, continuing conversation, and growing relationships we engaged in...
[Anglican Journal] Bishop Michael Bird of the Diocese of Niagara has filed a defamation lawsuit with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice against blogger David Jenkins.
The suit alleges that, in his blog Anglican Samizdat, Jenkins has published comments about Bird that were injurious to his “credit, character and reputation…in his office as spiritual leader and bishop of the diocese and in his occupation as priest…”
Hamilton lawyer Graydon Sheppard...
[Episcopal Diocese of New York] The Committee to Elect a Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York announces the opening of the time period to propose candidates for consideration to the office of bishop suffragan. The profile describing the diocese and suffragan position, as well as forms to propose a candidate and the candidate application package, may be found here. Candidates may submit their own names, or they...
La situación venezolana cada día se empeora. La semana pasada hubo golpes y gritos de protesta en el recinto de la Asamblea Nacional. El jueves se presentó un documento pidiendo que las elecciones pasadas sean anuladas. El presidente de la Asamblea, Diosdado Cabello no le concede la palabra a ningún legislador que no afirme la “elección” presidencial de Nicolás Maduro. La congresista opositora María Corina Machado fue tirada al suelo y pateada por los chavistas, según se pudo ver en los...