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The FCA is not another organization. It is not seeking to create another church. It is a spiritual movement and fellowship for renewal, reformation and mission – uniquely bringing together those whose key shaping and commitment, but not exclusive identity, has been through the Anglo-Catholic, conservative evangelical, and charismatic expressions of Anglicanism.
The FCA movement can do this because it is defined by its centre in the Christian faith as currently embraced in the Jerusalem Declaration and Statement. Vinay Samuel, a speaker on July 6 writes: “Gafcon is defined by its centre and not by any boundaries. It is a fellowship of people who affirm the centre of orthodox faith as expressed in the Jerusalem Statement. Some who are uncertain whether they are in or out might be finding boundaries which were never intended by those who have taken the initiative to launch this fellowship.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Provinces Church of England (CoE) * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches Evangelicals
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Travel
Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.
The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Science & Technology * General Interest Animals
--Forbes Magazine.
Filed under: * Economics, Politics Economy Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--
But a group of five state appellate judges decided this spring that his student loans were too big and his efforts to repay them too meager for him to be a lawyer.
“Applicant has not made any substantial payments on the loans,” the judges wrote in a terse decision and an unusual rejection of the committee’s recommendation. “Applicant has not presently established the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney and counselor-at-law.”
Read it all from the front page of today's New York Times. 400,000 in loans--symbolic of this recent era, alas.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues * Economics, Politics Economy Personal Finance The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--
It also offered up more embarrassment to South Carolinians who were just getting over the shock of his rambling, emotional press conference of last week. The governor related the latest chapter of his personal soap opera to an Associated Press reporter during a three-hour interview.
One of his most reasonable comments in the published account was the observation that he is dealing with his "own political funeral." The governor appears to be under some inner compulsion to get to the graveyard in a hurry.
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Filed under: * South Carolina
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics Economy Housing Market Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market Personal Finance The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- The Fiscal Stimulus Package of 2009 The U.S. Government Federal Reserve Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Politics in General Office of the President President Barack Obama
•A belief in something outside of themselves, such as God. Prisoners, like other humans, tend to behave differently in the face of the transcendent.
•Substance-abuse treatment. For many offenders, substance abuse has been a major problem. Treatment substantially reduces recidivism.
•Education. DOC data show a 4 percent reduction in recidivism for each grade-level increase in reading skills. Literacy should be required for release.
•Age. It's statistically odd but true that turning 28 makes a difference. Marriage also helps.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Prison/Prison Ministry
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) ACNA Inaugural Assembly June 2009 Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: San Joaquin
I wondered if the men would take a similar position, agreeing to be "servants" while limitations were placed on them.
"I'd be lying if I'd say I wasn't disappointed," said Canon Mary Hayes of the Pittsburgh Diocese. "I've been a priest 25 years. I'm delighted to be in a body of people who have different views. It's not about getting my way."
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) ACNA Inaugural Assembly June 2009 * Culture-Watch Women
“My clients felt as though it just wasn’t worth the long-term fight,” Nguyen said. “This is a church. It’s purpose is not material gain but spiritual matters.”
Petaluma Episcopalians appeared happy Wednesday to have a place of their own.
After a majority of the congregation voted to split from the Episcopal Church in December 2006, the remaining Episcopal members re-formed under the Rev. Norman Cram, and held services first in a parishioner’s living room and later at Elim Lutheran Church.
The congregation now has about 50 members.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: San Joaquin TEC Departing Parishes TEC Parishes
"Bishop Miller was a much beloved bishop in our diocese. He was a devoted pastor to many, a champion of the church's ministry among the poor and persons in special need, and a leader in expanding the ministry of the Episcopal Church in Alabama. He will be greatly missed," said the Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., Bishop of the Diocese of Alabama.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Bishops * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry Death / Burial / Funerals
"Let the doors be opened," the Rev. Edwin F. Gulick Jr., Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky intoned at the service, before leading a procession into the church sanctuary. The congregation sang "The Church's One Foundation."
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Bishops * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry
I happened to catch this yesterday morning. Note especially the concern about the mounting national debt and the mention of the historical parallels with the 1930's (he sees significant discontinuities there). Watch it all (a little over 10 1/2 minutes).
Filed under: * Culture-Watch History * Economics, Politics Economy Credit Markets The U.S. Government Federal Reserve The National Deficit Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Politics in General Office of the President President Barack Obama
Nuns were the often-unsung workers who helped build the Roman Catholic Church in this country, planting schools and hospitals and keeping parishes humming. But for the last three decades, their numbers have been declining — to 60,000 today from 180,000 in 1965.
While some nuns say they are grateful that the Vatican is finally paying attention to their dwindling communities, many fear that the real motivation is to reel in American nuns who have reinterpreted their calling for the modern world.
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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Spirituality/Prayer * Culture-Watch Women * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI
The Marine Expeditionary Brigade leading the operation represents a large number of the 21,000 additional troops that President Obama ordered to Afghanistan earlier this year amid rising violence and the Taliban’s increasing domination in much of the country. The operation is described as the first major push in southern Afghanistan by the newly bolstered American force.
Helmand is one of the deadliest provinces in Afghanistan, where Taliban fighters have practiced sleek, hit-and-run guerrilla warfare against the British forces based there.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Military / Armed Forces * Economics, Politics Defense, National Security, Military War in Afghanistan
General Convention meets July 8-17 in Anaheim, California, and Williams will be present July 7-9.
The session is not an official convention meeting and thus there has been no announcement of the plans. However, when contacted by Episcopal News Service, the Rev. Canon Michael Barlowe of the Diocese of California confirmed the details.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams Episcopal Church (TEC) General Convention 2009 TEC Parishes Sexuality Debate (in Anglican Communion) Same-sex blessings * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry
That includes looking at the messy human families found in the Bible.
"In the Old Testament, there are lots of examples of what holy and blessed marriage looks like, and what unholy marriage looks like," she said, "including polygamy and concubines being normal."
In the New Testament, she said, Jesus never married and was celibate. Paul wasn't married either.
"He said don't get married — unless you have to — because Jesus was coming back soon," she said.
Read the whole thing.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Sexuality Debate (in Anglican Communion) Same-sex blessings * Culture-Watch Marriage & Family * Theology Theology: Scripture
To spend time in Diepsloot over three weeks is to observe the unrelenting fear so common among the urban poor. Experts point to the particularly brutal nature of crime in this country: the unusually high number of rapes, hijackings and armed robberies. The murder rate, while declining, is about eight times higher than in the United States.
In Diepsloot, people usually bear their losses in silence, their misfortune unreported and their offenders unknown. If a suspect is identified, victims usually inform quasi-legal vigilante groups or hire their own thugs to recover their property.
This ran on the front page of Tuesday's New York Times. It is a sobering account of just some of the plight of the urban poor globally. Read it all--KSH.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues Poverty * International News & Commentary Africa South Africa
A study by the Melbourne political scientist Anna Crabb provides some confirmation that this deliberate separation of religion and politics may be dissolving - at least among MPs. Her analysis of parliamentary speeches of prominent federal politicians from 2002 to 2006 showed MPs were increasingly likely to appeal to religious beliefs to explain their positions. Conservatives were most likely to make such references but Labor MPs, including Kevin Rudd, came close to matching them.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Religion & Culture * Economics, Politics Politics in General * International News & Commentary Australia / NZ * Theology Ethics / Moral Theology
But for those willing to dig around, searching for search engines can reveal a treasure trove: The net is rich with specialized search services, all trying to find a way to get their slice of the billions of dollars Google makes every year answering queries.
For this article, we surveyed some 50 specialty search services and picked out our favorites. What follows is not a systematic ranking or review, but a general guide to a very vibrant world that few have bothered to explore in depth.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Blogging & the Internet Science & Technology
This exclusion is of such importance that it must not go unchallenged. It is a matter that concerns all Episcopalians. Exclusion of meaningful opposition in respect to the matters now before The Episcopal Church in the end will produce a niche church rather than a catholic church. Progressive claims to inclusivity are in fact false. The logic of their position drives relentlessly toward an increasingly constricted identity. The question progressive Episcopalians must answer is why members of the Episcopal Church that do not share their views ought to think otherwise. To put the issue more directly, progressive Episcopalians need to show the membership of their church and the rest of the Anglican Communion why their position does not end in an exclusive form of church life rather than a diverse one. This observation leads to a direct question. The question is what reason can be given from the point of view of progressive Episcopalians to a traditional Anglican for being a member of The Episcopal Church. I certainly have my own reasons and have stated them on many occasions. But progressive Episcopalians have claimed something that both their words and actions belie, and it seems only right for them to confront and explain this inconsistency to the rest of us.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Consultative Council Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Polity & Canons Instruments of Unity
Navy Lt. Carey H. Cash, 39, a Memphis, Tenn. native, is pastor of the chapel at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin mountains. A Southern Baptist, Cash began his three-year tour of duty there in January.
The Evergreen Chapel serves the roughly 400 people who live and work on the remote compound, along with the first family when they flee the White House for the peace of the mountain forest.
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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry * Culture-Watch Military / Armed Forces Religion & Culture * Economics, Politics Politics in General Office of the President President Barack Obama
“So far, the entire clergy, lay leadership and our families are all well,” the Rt. Rev. Lloyd Allen wrote on June 29 in an e-mail to the House of Bishops.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) * International News & Commentary Central America --Honduras
With its archbishop and church laws now established, the new group represents a clean break with the past for former Episcopalians, Lebhar said.
"For the average person in the pew, I'd say the major thing it means is that our denominational battles are over and we can get on with the ministry and mission of the church," said Lebhar, rector at the (Anglican) Church of the Redeemer on the Southside.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: Florida TEC Departing Parishes
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: Fort Worth
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: Florida
And so, even as Washington tries to cover the tens of millions of Americans without medical insurance, many health policy experts say simply giving everyone an insurance card will not be enough to fix what is wrong with the system.
Too many other people already have coverage so meager that a medical crisis means financial calamity.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Health & Medicine
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues Life Ethics Religion & Culture Teens / Youth
The document, entitled "Charity in Truth," is expected to be published soon.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Globalization Poverty * Economics, Politics Economy * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI
The soaring church, built by tycoon John D. Rockefeller Jr., on Manhattan's Upper West Side in 1927, has become renowned for its interracial and interdenominational brand of preaching and social justice.
The parish of my father's parents, in which his father played a huge early role--sad to read this.
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches
Only fear the LORD, and serve him faithfully with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
--1 Samuel 12: 23-24
Filed under: * Theology Theology: Scripture
