News Updates

News Updates

April 2004

• God Makes Some Strange Choices

  The Bible, among other things, is a record of God’s strange choices. Throughout our sacred texts, the most unlikely people are picked for weighty tasks, often over their own and others’ objections. (By Douglas G. Scott)

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• Maine Missioner Receives a Total Makeover

  What happens when a good friend secretly submits your name to a reality television show that wants a religious worker to pretend to be a used car salesman in Las Vegas? Just ask Clark Bridge.

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• More Dioceses Announce Lower Revenue Forecasts

  Withholding by some congregations and lower than expected pledge income at others have forced many dioceses into a financial bind.

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• ARC-USA Dialogue Continues

  Despite the resignation of the Anglican co-chair and a temporary suspension of the international dialogue, nothing has happened to the official ecumenical dialogue between Episcopalians and Roman Catholics in the United States, according to the Rt. Rev...

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• South Carolina Joins Network

  Clergy and lay leadership in the Diocese of South Carolina voted to affiliate with the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes during the annual convention March 5-6 at the North Charleston Convention Center.

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• Archbishop Gomez Expects Discipline for Episcopal Church

  The Episcopal Church will be disciplined for permitting same-sex liturgical blessings and for consecrating a sexually active homosexual person as Bishop of New Hampshire, according to the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Primate of the West Indies and a member of the Lambeth Commission, which is due to issue a recommendation later this year.

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• Bishop MacDonald of Alaska Wins No-Drilling Concession

  BP, the third largest energy company and the fifth largest corporation in the world, announced on April 15 that it has no future plans to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The announcement came immediately following comments by the Bishop of Alaska, the Rt. Rev. Mark MacDonald, who helped present a shareholder resolution directing the company to report on the risks associated with operating in environmentally fragile areas.

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• Tallahassee Church Destroyed by Fire

  A fire which destroyed the Church of the Holy Spirit in Tallahassee, Fla., on April 16 has been ruled arson, and law enforcement officials have identified a suspect.

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• African Provinces Cut Financial Ties with U.S.

  The Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) has called upon the Lambeth Commission to discipline the Episcopal Church for unilateral changes to church teaching on sexuality, and as a mark of its resolve, stated it would no longer accept financial assistance from American dioceses and organizations which seek to normalize homosexual behavior.

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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• Circuit-Riding Women

  Bibles and communion kits in the car beside them, Nebraska’s circuit riding women are determined to save souls. (By Nancy G. Westerfield)

  Posted on April 27, 2004

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