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The Most Amazing Man Alive
What is it with the Brits hushing up any public declaration of faith? The World Cup is underway, of course, and English football (that’s soccer to us American types) star Wayne Rooney was asked at a news conference about why he wears a cross and rosary beads off the field, er, pitch.
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No Religion Please, We’re British
Following up on what has come to be called “mitergate” let us note the following from Canon Kenneth Kearon’s opening remarks to the Presiding Bishop at the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church, meeting this last Friday. Canon Kearon asked that all of understand that his remarks were in the context of a conversation, one which he (and I think all of us) hoped would be dealt with as something not to be picked apart and dissected, but rather appreciated as a conversation.
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A Conversational apology, sort of, from The Secretary General
Bishop Ann Tottenham of the Anglican Church of Canada wrote Preludium with this comment: “For the record, I celebrated and preached at Southwark Cathedral on November 9, 2009 with the permission of the Powers-That-Be in the C.of E. in the presence of the Diocesan Bishop and fully vested including mitre.
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Bishop Ann Tottenham on the record re gratuitous Miter prohibition.
The Guardian’s Hugh Muir wrote in Guardian Diary “If the US Episcopal Church – still part of the worldwide Anglican communion despite having the temerity to elect gay bishops – feels nervous about the warmth of its welcome from the mothership that is the Church of England, perhaps there are reasons. Katharine Jefferts Schori , the presiding bishop of the US church and the first woman ever to lead an Anglican province, preached at Southwark Cathedral last weekend despite muted hisses of disapproval by conservative evangelicals.
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If this is true, what happened to hospitality?
According to a press release from the Anglican Church in North America, “The Anglican Church in North America has 614 congregations in 20 dioceses. More than 200 other congregations are ministry partners with the Anglican Church, including the congregations of The Anglican Mission. The Anglican Church represents more than 100,000 Christians in North America.” This is down by 200 from the more than 800 previously reported, although the number of persons continues at roughly the same 100,000.
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Anglican Church in North America numbers revised
Here’s a name from the past: Steve Hill. Name still not ringing a bell? Think about a church service happening nightly with a line around the building.
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Evangelist Steve Hill provides prodigals a map to come back home
The people who left The Episcopal Church in that part of Illinois that constitutes the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy have formed their own diocese (claiming it is the real and only one) now part of the Anglican Church in North America. They up and elected someone who claims to be a bishop to be their bishop.
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Alberto Morales elected by ACNA diocese of Quincy…what’s going on here?
Let’s get one thing straight. Barack Obama has not been calling BP “British Petroleum”. Not repeatedly, not pointedly, not — as far as anyone who has bothered to search the record can tell — at all
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Yes, Obama is angry with BP, but not Britain
Gordon Brown has a reputation as a gloomy curmudgeon who sees a cloud hovering around every silver lining. David Cameron is seen as a sunny optimist, always keen to look on the bright side of life
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Cameron offers us the audacity of despair