News Updates

News Updates

July 2010

• ‘Where Is Your Brother?’

  Canterbury Scholars Build Friendships in the Global Communion

  Posted on July 30, 2010

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• Bishop Praises ‘Brave and Faithful’ Church

  Reports about thefts, rapes and murders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and of mass attacks that create refugees in the tens of thousands, are not abstractions for the Bishop of Winchester.

  Posted on July 29, 2010

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• Standing Committee Adjusts to Scrutiny

  When the Anglican Communion’s standing committee completed five days of closed-door sessions in London, members emerged claiming greater transparency about process and a renewed commitment to mission.

  Posted on July 28, 2010

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• Nigerian Archbishop Bolsters CANA

  The primacy of “global mission and evangelism” has been threatened by tensions in the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Nigeria said in an address July 23 while in Virginia.

  Posted on July 26, 2010

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• review essay: Rescuing Galileo from Scientism

  The authors of Galileo Observed begin with critiquing Victorian Era mythologizing about the trial as a major battlefield in a supposed “war of science and religion.”

  Posted on July 23, 2010

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• From Lost Boy to Bishop

  The Episcopal Church of Sudan’s Diocese of Aweil has consecrated the Rt. Rev. Abraham Yel Nhial as its first bishop. He was elected on July 16 and consecrated two days later.

  Posted on July 21, 2010

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• San Diego to Allow Same-sex Blessings

  The decision by the Rt. Rev. James Robert Mathes, Bishop of San Diego, reflects the recommendations of the diocese’s Holiness in Relationships Task Force Report.

  Posted on July 20, 2010

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• Same-sex Rites Draw $400,000 Grant

  The Church Divinity School of the Pacific has received a $404,000 grant to help the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music gather and develop rites for blessing same-sex couples.

  Posted on July 16, 2010

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• essay: Baptized into Eucharist

  In many places the Eucharist is now “opened” to the unbaptized. While this is well meant, I will suggest that such a practice undermines what the Church and Eucharist are about.

  Posted on July 16, 2010

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• Bishop Gulick to Assist in Virginia

  He will begin visiting parishes Sept. 12 as one of five “guest bishops” who agreed to assist the Rt. Rev. Shannon Johnston, Bishop of Virginia, during 2010. On New Year’s Day in 2011 he will become assistant bishop.

  Posted on July 15, 2010

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