News Updates

News Updates

6/17/2004

• Snake Bites and Sheep Stealing

  It was a bright Saturday morning,I was on my knees beneath a maple tree transplanting myrtle when the Witnesses materialized at the end of the block... (By Steven Olderr)

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• Work and Human Dignity

  The Church’s failure to understand the sanctity of secular work has fostered a culture in which religion and work are “separate departments.” (By By William F. Bellais)

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• Pollster's Faithful Service

  The retirement of a prominent Episcopalian, George Gallup.

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• Executive Council Moves Forward on Several Fronts

  With approval for a $30 million renovation of the Episcopal Church Center, study of a church-wide capital campaign, authorization to begin a major youth initiative, and a national advertising campaign to begin in the fall, members of Executive Council set the Church on an optimistic and autonomous course toward 2006 and beyond when they met in Burlington, Vt., June 11-14.

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• Global South Leaders Call for Expulsion

  Hopes that the fragile truce holding the Anglican Communion together would not be broken by the Anglican Church of Canada’s June 3 vote affirming the “sanctity” of homosexual relationships [TLC, June 30] appear to have collapsed as Anglican leaders from the Global South have called for the expulsion of the Canadian Church from the Anglican Communion.

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