Monday, July 16, 2018
The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, Bishop of Springfield, reflects on the 79th General Convention, and especially on its decision regarding same-sex marriage: The 1979 Book of Common Prayer (p. 423), in accordance with all of its predecessors, the official teaching of...
Monday, July 16, 2018
9 Pentecost, July 22 2 Sam. 7:1-14a or Jer. 23:1-6 Ps. 89:20-37 or Ps. 23 Eph. 2:11-22 • Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 “Now when the king was settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies around him, the king said to the prophet Nathan, ‘See now, I...
Friday, July 13, 2018
Adapted from Sharon Tillman, ENS The 79th General Convention has committed to revising Lesser Feasts and Fasts and the entire sanctoral calendar with the adoption of Resolution A065. The Blue Book Report filed by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music contains...
Friday, July 13, 2018
The Diocese of Arizona has announced three nominees — all from the East Coast — in the search for its sixth bishop: The Rev. Dena Marcel Cleaver-Bartholomew, rector, Christ Church, Manlius, New York [essay answers] The Rev. Jennifer Anne Reddall, Church of the...
Friday, July 13, 2018
By Kirk Petersen Albany Bishop William Love, who passionately but unsuccessfully urged the House of Bishops to reject a resolution on same-sex marriage rites, said he has no plans to leave the Episcopal Church. Love’s anguished afternoon presentation July 11 raised...
Friday, July 13, 2018
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald As the Rev. Megan Castellan set out five months ago on a disciplinary reform project to reduce sexual misconduct in the Episcopal Church, she expected progress to take longer than it has. “Even the most well-meaning people don’t like change if...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
By Matthew Townsend and Kirk Petersen By the penultimate day of its deliberations, the 79th General Convention had settled several of the hot button issues anticipated in Austin — churchwide same-sex marriage, a salary for the president of the House of Deputies, and...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
The Rev. Canon Michael Buerkel Hunn, chairman of the 79th General Convention’s Worship Committee, has apologized for language in a hymn, God of the galaxies (Sound the Bamboo, Christian Conference of Asia Hymnal, 2000), used during the Eucharist for the Care of...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Grants of £27 million by the Church of England aim to create 100 new churches in coastal areas, market towns, and outer unban housing estates. “The Church is always called to reach out, meet God’s people and share with them the life changing faith of Jesus Christ,”...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
By Matthew Townsend The House of Deputies has adopted a $133.8 million budget for the Episcopal Church’s 2019-21 triennium with little opposition and only a few hiccups along the way. The budget, presented by the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald The House of Deputies has concurred with the House of Bishops in creating a staff position for liturgy and music. The position on the presiding bishop’s staff will cost $380,000 for the triennium, according to Resolution A195, and will focus on...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
By Colin Podmore On the last day of June — a glorious summer Saturday — the Rt. Rev. Jonathan Baker, Bishop of Fulham (a suffragan in the Diocese of London), ordained two men in their early 30s to the diaconate at the church of Our Most Holy Redeemer in Clerkenwell,...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Four congregations have announced they intend to separate from the Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand. Their action protests General Synod’s decision on May 9 to authorize marital blessings for same-sex couples. Archbishop Philip Richardson is in discussions with...
Thursday, July 12, 2018
8 Pentecost, July 15 2 Sam. 6:1-5, 12b-19 or Amos 7:7-15 Ps. 24 or Ps. 85:8-13 Eph. 1:3-14 • Mark 6:14-29 “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them” (Matt. 20:25). An obsession with power, prestige, and...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
By Matthew Townsend Both houses of General Convention have approved a resolution that will move the Episcopal Church closer to liturgical revision, but not closer to a revised Book of Common Prayer. The steps to this decision have been unpredictable, and the result...
