IOL: Mugabe is ‘a prophet of God’ – rebel bishop Last year, Kunonga withdrew from the Anglican province of Central Africa to set up his own province in Zimbabwe, ostensibly in a row about homosexuality. But his critics claim he was really just preserving his own position. The mother church fired him last month. He has been steadily abandoned by all the parishes in Zimbabwe and now serves a community of only a few dozen worshippers who fill a few pews in the cathedral on Sunday mornings. “We will not use the cathedral for services again until we have reconsecrated…
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IOL: Mugabe is ‘a prophet of God’ – rebel bishop Last year, Kunonga withdrew from the Anglican province of Central Africa to set up his own province in Zimbabwe, ostensibly in a row about homosexuality. But his critics claim he was really just preserving his own position. The mother church fired him last month. He has been steadily abandoned by all the parishes in Zimbabwe and now serves a community of only a few dozen worshippers who fill a few pews in the cathedral on Sunday mornings. “We will not use the cathedral for services again until we have reconsecrated…
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God Girl reminded me of the moving poetry and inspiring life of John O’Donohue, who was interviewed by Krista Tippett of Speaking of Faith. I double-dog dare you to read the poem, or listen to the author read it in the video, without choking up. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZfvS2LYbZLQ" width="400" height="326" wmode="transparent" /] Beannacht From John O’Donohue’s Echoes of Memory On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of…
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Earlier this evening in the comments at Father Jake’s, someone mentioned that the bishops attending Lambeth should wear buttons with +Gene Robinson’s picture. No photo, but lo: Mini Button > Episcopal Church Items > EpiscoStuff | CafePress
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Earlier this evening in the comments at Father Jake’s, someone mentioned that the bishops attending Lambeth should wear buttons with +Gene Robinson’s picture. No photo, but lo: Mini Button > Episcopal Church Items > EpiscoStuff | CafePress
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 …it’s a good idea to remove the distinctive nametag while committing a blasphemous act of desecration, Elder. I expect a better quality image exists, and that law enforcement has already sharpened it up. The Pueblo Chieftain Online – Church to vote on vandalism charges
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Spiritual caregivers: Beyond physical healing – Salt Lake Tribune For 22 years, Lincoln Ure, an Episcopal priest, has been the clinical pastoral education supervisor at St. Mark’s Hospital, the one site in Utah that offers the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) training. Succeeding as a chaplain, Ure explained, “takes some serious internal work.” Father Linc spent some time with Mom and with the rest of our spiritually divergent family while Mom was at St Mark’s. He was such a good sport when she was throwing us out one by one – offered to go in and be thrown out,…
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Nolbert Kunonga, deposed bishop of Harare in Zimbabwe, is notoriously known as the “Bad Bishop” around here. He’s been embroiled in a dispute with his diocese where he’s currently squatting in possession of the cathedral, and refusing to allow worshipers, priests, and the acting bishop access. He commented recently in an interview: “The cannons(sic) are clear on the issue of homosexuality. We are not doing anything new, but we have joined other dioceses elsewhere that have rejected homosexuality and decided to break away from their provinces. “If they do not see anything bad in homosexuality then for us there is…
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Nolbert Kunonga, deposed bishop of Harare in Zimbabwe, is notoriously known as the “Bad Bishop” around here. He’s been embroiled in a dispute with his diocese where he’s currently squatting in possession of the cathedral, and refusing to allow worshipers, priests, and the acting bishop access. He commented recently in an interview: “The cannons(sic) are clear on the issue of homosexuality. We are not doing anything new, but we have joined other dioceses elsewhere that have rejected homosexuality and decided to break away from their provinces. “If they do not see anything bad in homosexuality then for us there is…
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Here are a few items I ran across the other day… yeah, I blog about this stuff too much, while I mull over real-world blogfodder. I am in some ways coming around to the point of view expressed by a Canadian columnist: Sin of hypocrisy I suppose I should be charitable to those who are splitting my church but that’s too much to ask. There isn’t, I daresay, a single one of them who is without sin — many of whom, like divorced persons, are ongoing sinners. These defectors are hypocrites. Their sin is OK but the conduct of gays,…