The Saints Go Marchin’ In

Two Bishops Not Invited to Lambeth The Associated Press Tuesday, May 22, 2007; 7:18 AM LONDON — Two bishops at the heart of the U.S. Episcopal Church’s divisions over sexuality and scripture will not be invited to next year’s global gathering of Anglican prelates, the archbishop of Canterbury’s office said Tuesday. Bishops V. Gene Robinson…
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Cancel the War for Mother

Mother’s Day Proclamation Thanks to Lydia Thayer for this Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have breasts, Whether our baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and…
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The First Mother Priest

Celebrating the First Woman Priest Li Tim-Oi By Mary Frances Schjonberg, May 04, 2007 The Rev. Li Tim-Oi met with then-Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie in 1984. [Episcopal News Service] Special services in the countries where the Rev. Florence Li Tim-Oi, the first woman ordained a priest in the Anglican Communion, began and ended her…
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