News Updates

News Updates

August 2005

• Special Appeal as Northwest Texas Faces Funding Crunch

  Not only is the Diocese of Northwest Texas in a cash “crunch” for the present, but “it appears that without help from individual members of the diocese, our situation will continue to deteriorate,” according to the bishop, the Rt. Rev. C. Wallis Ohl, Jr., who issued an appeal to individual members on Aug. 15.

  Posted on August 31, 2005

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• Six Coastal Mississippi Churches Demolished

  The whereabouts and safety of all but two of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast clergy have been confirmed, according to the diocese’s canon to the ordinary. But Hurricane Katrina has demolished at least six of the 10 parishes in the Coastal Convocation.

  Posted on August 31, 2005

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• Boston Landmark Thrives Again

  While the church building of Trinity Church, Boston, the congregation began to shrink ominously, beginning in the mid 1960s. But the church has made a healthy turnaround.

  Posted on August 31, 2005

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• Twenty Five Notable Years

  On June 9, the Rev. Canon John Andrew will retire as rector of St. Thomas' Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City's famous church, and return to his native England to live. When in Washington recently, he shared some thoughts about his 25 years in the Episcopal Church - a ministry notable for traditional worship, great music, liturgy and preaching, pastoral care and community outreach.

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• Giving a Boost to Good Preachers

  Let's be honest about this right up front. The Episcopal Church is not known for great preaching. Having said that, let's take note of what some people in St. Louis are doing about that.

  Posted on August 31, 2005

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• It's the Congregation, Not the Diocese

  I don’t think it’s possible to follow Jesus as Lord and Savior without doing so in a local Christian community.

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• Preaching as Sacred Play

  Preaching is hard work. Good preaching is even harder work. Former Archbishop of Canterbury Donald Coggin described the homiletical discipline as a "joyful tyranny." Most preachers are well acquainted with the noun Lord Coggin uses, but many have little if any sense of the adjective.

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• Why We Don't Grow

  It has occurred to me that maybe the church does not want to grow.

  Posted on August 31, 2005

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• Many Benefits of a Sister Parish

  The establishment and maintenance of a sister parish relationship is a low-cost program which can provide many benefits to a congregation and its members. Such a relationship can be much more than what "we" do for "them."

  Posted on August 31, 2005

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• Ministry to the Homeless

  The problem of homelessness knows no boundaries, geographic, racial, age or gender.

  Posted on August 31, 2005

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