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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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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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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UK Treasury, Pears Foundation Pledge £1.5m. for Holocaust Education Article by Jonny Paul, In the Jerusalem Post Britain’s Treasury and the Pears Foundation, a major contributor to education and civil rights causes in the UK and abroad, will each contribute £250,000 a year for three years to the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) to train instructors…
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Unions for a Global Economy By Harold Meyerson, April 26, 2007; The Washington Post The business press has barely noticed and the usual champions of globalization have been mute, but an announcement last week in Ottawa signaled a radical new direction for the globalized economy. The United Steelworkers — that venerable, Depression-era creation of John…
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Guernica — April 27, 1937 Â During the Spanish Civil War the Condor Legion of the German air force, supporting the Nationalists, bombed the Basque city of Guernica on April 27, 1937, an event memorialized in Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica. Source: Click Here Â
Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all Tuesday April 24, 2007 an article in The Guardian Last autumn, there…
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Today is Equal Pay Day. The date—Tuesday, April 24th—symbolizes the fact that on average, a woman must work for a year and four months to earn the same wages as a man receives in a year. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 made it illegal to pay women less than men for work that is…
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This May Be From Katrina Today, Congress has the opportunity to help thousands of New Orleans residents come back home. Â The Gulf Coast Hurricane Housing Recovery Act of 2007 would re-open desperately needed public housing units and make sure there is no loss of affordable public housing in New Orleans. The bill quickly passed the…
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Christians Seek ‘Fresh Expressions’ of Church Life By Ekklesia Staff Writers 21 Apr 2007 According to the latest research, 39 per cent of Church of England parishes have started a ‘Fresh Expression’ of church since 2000 – a new initiative to connect with those who are currently outside church, and who may feel disconnected from…
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When the Saints Go Marching Out: Redefining St George for a New Era Paper by Ekklesia Staff Writers Abstract This paper proposes that the figure of St George should be reclaimed according to his true, hidden story – as a dissenter against the abuse of power, a contrast to religious crusades, a global figure we…
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Dean’s Atonement Talk Resulted in Abuse and Obscenity By Ekklesia Staff Writers 18 Apr 2007 The Anglican Dean of St Albans, Jeffrey John, received many “abusive and obscene” letters from people who objected to his Holy Week talk saying that the cross of Christ was about God bearing suffering, not inflicting it – even though…
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An Optimism Too Far for Palestine-Israel? By Timothy Seidel in Ekklesia 12 Apr 2007 United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently travelled through the Middle East, making visits with Israelis and Palestinians, bringing with her, many have speculated, little more than another round of optimism. This familiar aura of hard-to-pin-down optimism was also found…
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St. Saviour’s is Beautiful People A Sermon by George Swanson Second Sunday of Easter, 2007 Jesus said to Thomas, “Happy are those who have not seen me.†In the name of Jesus, our dead and risen Saviour. Chilton Knudsen, the Bishop of Maine, visited St. Saviour’s this winter. At a meeting before the service she…
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Pas de Deux of Sexuality Is Written in the Genes NY Times article by NICHOLAS WADE April 10, 2007 When it comes to the matter of desire, evolution leaves little to chance. Human sexual behavior is not a free-form performance, biologists are finding, but is guided at every turn by genetic programs. Desire between the…
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Street Theater at Memorial Spreads Pain, not Morality Mourners approach a demonstrator who stood outside the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center at Norfolk State University, where a memorial service for Sean Williams was held Wednesday. The sign that he and another demonstrator held denounced homosexuality. CHRIS TYREE/THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT The Virginian-Pilot © April 6, 2007…
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Archbishop of Wales: Easter Fights Racism, Militarism, Nationalism, Sexism and Poverty By Ekklesia staff writers 8 Apr 2007 To believe in the resurrection of Jesus is to be incorporated in a spiritual and political struggle for life against death, empowered by God’s love rather than by the forces of oppression and division, says the Anglican…
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Jesus’ descent into the underworld Something strange is happening- – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have…
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