News Updates

News Updates

April 2003

• No Time to Build Walls, Dean Werner Says

  With the terms of about half of its membership due to expire after General Convention and having completed the majority of its preparatory work on the 2004-2006 budget, Executive Council opened its final meeting of the triennium in Ellicott City, Md., on April 28 on a reflective note and postponed legislative action on the limited number of issues before it until the final day.

  Posted on April 30, 2003

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• ELCA Presiding Bishop Troubled by Divisiveness

  Ordination of non-celibate homosexual persons and the full communion agreement with the Episcopal Church are among a number of issues with the potential to fracture the 5.1 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), according to its presiding bishop, the Rev. Mark Hanson.

  Posted on April 30, 2003

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• Berkeley Names Britton as Dean

  Berkeley Divinity School at Yale looked overseas to find its new dean. The Rev. Canon Joseph Harp Britton, who has been involved in ministry in Paris for the past seven years, was named to the position, effective July 1.

  Posted on April 30, 2003

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• Colorado Announces Nominees for Bishop

  The Diocese of Colorado has announced a slate of five nominees for the June 21 election of a bishop coadjutor.

  Posted on April 28, 2003

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• Conference Aims at Goal of Affordable Healthcare

  The spiraling health care costs for businesses are small potatoes compared to the demographic tsunami that will be coming ashore when a new wave of children comes of age in 2010, according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who was one of several speakers at an April 8-9 conference in Washington, D.C., called “Waging Reconciliation: An Episcopal Response to Healthcare Barriers."

  Posted on April 28, 2003

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• Lexington Canon Resigns; Financial Discrepancies Investigated

  A new diocesan administrator discovered “possible improprieties” with the bishop’s discretionary account in the Diocese of Lexington and led to the resignation of the Rev. Christopher B. Platt, 55, canon to the ordinary and chaplain at St. Augustine’s Chapel at the University of Kentucky.

  Posted on April 28, 2003

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• The Future of the Diaconate

  "Far from eliminating the transitional diaconate, I wish we could expand it," writes the Rev. R. David Cox.

  Posted on April 28, 2003

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• Project Canterbury

  An online resource, Project Canterbury presently contains some 2,000 ancient, classical Anglican writings, with links to many more.

  Posted on April 28, 2003

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• Quoth the Raven, 'Oh, my!'

  A letter from Edgar Allen Poe that was hidden in a vault at St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee, Wis., fetches $20,000 at an auction.

  Posted on April 28, 2003

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• P.B. Keeps Eye on Human Rights in The Sudan

  The passage of a United Nations resolution reclassifying The Sudan as a country without significant human rights abuses will undermine a fragile peace process and the credibility of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, according to Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, who recently wrote to the United States representative at the United Nations.

  Posted on April 21, 2003

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