News Updates

News Updates

August 2009

• Navajoland Bishop Plans Transition

  The Rt. Rev. Mark MacDonald will step down as assisting bishop of the Navajoland Area Mission next month.

  Posted on August 31, 2009

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• Longtime Lay Leader Betty Connelly Dies

  Betty Connelly, a national leader among Episcopalians during the 1980s and 1990s, died early Thursday in Newport Beach, Calif. She represented the Diocese of Los Angeles as a six-time deputy to General Convention and was president of Episcopal Church Women, presided at its Triennial in 1979.

  Posted on August 28, 2009

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• Festival Critic: Invitation to Bishop Robinson Shows Bias

  Organizers of England’s Greenbelt Christian arts and music festival, which is expected to draw some 20,000 people to Cheltenham this weekend, are facing criticism for invited Bishop Gene Robinson to address the gathering.

  Posted on August 28, 2009

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• Presiding Bishop Defends ‘Heresy’ Address

  Asserting that the task of Christians is “to be in relationship with God and with our neighbors,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori offered a detailed defense of her July 7 opening address to General Convention, in which she called individualism the “great Western heresy.”

  Posted on August 27, 2009

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• Two Nominees by Petition in Minnesota Bishop Election

  Two priests in the Diocese of Minnesota have agreed to stand for possible nomination by petition as their diocese seeks its ninth bishop.

  Posted on August 25, 2009

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• Anaheim Statement Continues to Gain Supporters

  The Anaheim Statement, endorsed by 34 bishops at the close of General Convention, has added two more bishops to its list of supporters.

  Posted on August 24, 2009

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• ELCA OKs Partnered Gay Clergy

  The 11th Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved two final resolutions on Friday afternoon that open their church’s rostered clergy rolls to men and women in same-sex relationships.

  Posted on August 21, 2009

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• ELCA to Allow Same-Sex Blessings

  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s 11th Churchwide Assembly on Friday voted to allow congregations to bless same-sex couples.

  Posted on August 21, 2009

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• ELCA Fear: Admitting Gay Clergy Would ‘Dissolve’ Church Unity

  Lutherans referred to Anglicans more than once Thursday morning as they discussed whether to admit openly gay and lesbian persons into rostered ministry.

  Posted on August 20, 2009

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• ELCA Approves Sexuality Statement

  Voting members of the 11th Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America approved a social statement, “Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust,” by a two-thirds margin Wednesday.

  Posted on August 20, 2009

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