Anglican Journal: Venables predicts end of Anglican Communion Right, right. The schismatic faction is open to the idea of divorce and closed to the idea of inclusivity. Yet the Founder opposed divorce and said nothing about excluding anybody.
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Churches in Western Washington, in towns like Olympia and Tumwater, have been taking turns hosting a homeless camp called Camp Quixote over the last year or so. Basically, the homeless are housed in church parking lots in an organized fashion, with access to the church buildings at times for rest rooms, kitchen and washing facilities. After a few months, they move on to the next location. It’s a great way for churches to cooperate with each other – there’s an Episcopal church, a Unitarian Universalist community, and other denominations. But the nearby town of Lacey, WA decided that they would…
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One thing to remember: the FLDS compounds are as self-sufficient as possible. Medical care is handled “inhouse.” State mandated reporter laws for suspected abuse cases and records keeping: forget about it. More Clarity About Abuse, Intermarriage, Child Breeders, and the Fundamentalist Church of Later Day Saints | PEEK | AlterNet
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Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu, collarless, in front of Yorkminster. BBC NEWS | UK | Archbishop leads Zimbabwe protest The Archbishop of York has urged members of Zimbabwe’s security forces not to prop up Robert Mugabe’s regime. Dr John Sentamu, one of the most senior members of the Anglican church, is leading a day of fasting and prayer in support of the people of Zimbabwe. He urged the army and police not to “terrorise the ordinary citizens”. In December, Dr Sentamu cut up his clerical collar on television and said he would not replace it until President Mugabe was…
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Ecumenical “new monastic” community: Welcome to the home of the Northumbria Community online
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A beautifully reworked psalm for night prayer from the Comments section of Fr Jake’s Place
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Father Paul pulled out a very beautiful old Pete Seeger Custom banjo and sang a few lines of “Plastic Jesus” today in church; he’d have had a sing-along going if he’d thought to print out the lyrics, and as it was a lot of people at the early service knew the song and helped him remember the middle section. I told him about a terrific interview my husband David and I heard on Bob Edwards Weekend, which airs on Sundays on WBEZ. I’m tracking down all the related links I can for it to send to Fr. Paul by email.…
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I got really annoyed last night as WordPress wasn’t behaving; it would not insert an image using the fancy schmancy image uploader. So I had David upgrade Image Manager, which is working again (but still has the annoying behavior it’s always had where the window has to be resized by hand). And then today, there’s a new version of WordPress out, 2.5.1. Among security fixes, it also supposedly fixes the problem with the image uploader, and also adds to or upgrades the visual editor. So it’s time to test this with a few images from my cameraphone. And blather. First…
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The Lead notes that Presiding Bishop Katharine has been getting a lot of press lately; just about every where she goes, she gets local ink. Even in Utah.
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Hopes of finding ballooning Brazilian priest fade – Yahoo! News This is sad – a priest pulling a “Mythbusters-like” stunt with hundreds of helium balloons is feared lost at sea.