Showing posts with label Anglican Communion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anglican Communion. Show all posts
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Why They're Furious About Bishop Michael Curry: Worldwide Platform to Proclaim "Ferociously Political Faith in the Radical Power of Christian Love"

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Stepped into the hallway of my Chicago hotel this morning for a moment during the #RoyalWedding and through the closed doors of every si...
Monday, June 26, 2017

The Guardian on Abuse in Church of England in Peter Ball Case: "A Reputation Deservedly Damaged"

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Not to be missed: the Guardian   editorial yesterday on the cover-up in the Church of England of Bishop Peter Ball's abuse of mi...
Friday, June 17, 2016

"All I Hear in These Conversations Now Is Death": Queer People Continue Engaging World Religious Leaders and Their Institutions in Light of Orlando

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. @JamesMartinSJ on solidarity w/ #LGBT community in wake of #Orlando shooting | https://t.co/k58PvyCGhL pic.twitter.com/Ny6Ye1Uaan —...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Diarmaid MacCulloch on Historians, Silence, and Sexual Orientation: "As a Gay Child and Teenager, I Also Effortlessly Developed . . . An Observer Status"

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A few days ago, I made some connections between Diarmaid MacCulloch's book Silence: A Christian History  (NY: Penguin, 2013), wh...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

United Methodists Discuss Anglican Communion's Sanctioning of Episcopal Church USA for Support of Same-Sex Marriage: Implications for UMC Future?

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Robert Schotter writes , 
Monday, February 1, 2016

In the News: ACLU and Colleges Discriminating Against LGBT Students; Anti-LGBT Bills in State Legislatures; Pakistan Censors Gay Times Photo; Anglican Leaders Out of Touch; Dancing Priests and Nuns in Italy

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Here's an omnium gatherum of stuff — related in my strange head, but perhaps it won't appear that way to you — that has caugh...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Recommended: Joe Biden on LGBT Rights, Catherine Wallace on Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxiety, Patricia Miller on What Pope Benedict Knew When

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God bless Joe Biden (the section I've transcribed from his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum begins at about the 1.55 mar...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

When Tea and Sympathy Are No Longer Nearly Enough: A Response to Archbishop Justin Welby's Apology to LGBT Community

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On Sunday, at his Winsome, Lose Some blog site, Anglican priest Reverend Richard Haggis published an open letter  to Archbishop of Ca...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Diarmaid MacCulloch on Anger of Heterosexual Men Driving Religious Conservatism, and Mess Anglican Leaders Have Made for Themselves

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I've shared these observations with you in the past. I think it might be helpful now to gather them together in one posting, fo...

Defining Christianity by Exclusion of LGBT Human Beings: "If This Is the Christianity They Want, Perhaps It Is Time for That Christianity to Die"

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Thinking back this morning to Kaya Oakes's post- Obergefell  essay last November: as she points out, anti-LGBT right-wing Christians...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Anglican Communion Sanctions Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop of ECUSA Responds: Commitment to Be an Inclusive Church Based on Outstretched Arms of Jesus on the Cross

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As Chris Morley has reported to us in several comments, at its Primates 2016 meeting in Canterbury, the Anglican Communion chose yest...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Footnote to Previous Posting about "Furious Religion": Portland, Oregon, Evangelical Church Excluded for Welcoming LGBT Christians

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Mark 1:41, Describing Jesus's Healing of a Leper Earlier today, I wrote  with regard to the pastoral letter issued today by the...

Bishops of Church of England on "Furious Religion" and Scapegoating of the Other, Pope Francis on Jesus and Lepers: Where Is There Good News for Gay People Today?

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Luke 5:13, Jesus's Healing of a Leper It's interesting to read the pastoral letter that the House of Bishops of the Church...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Gay Rights and the Challenge of 2015: The Price Gay Citizens Pay for Continued Foot-Dragging on Marriage Equality

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Something else that matters to me as the turbulent year of 2014 ends and a new year begins: the challenge of combating deeply entrenc...
Friday, October 17, 2014

A Re-Posting from Christmas 2010: "Welcoming Churches and Homeless Wayfarers"

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I first posted the following meditation on the day after Christmas 2010. I also posted it at my travel blog site , Never in Paradise, ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Church of England's Choice to Accept Female Bishops: What Will Be the Effect on the Roman Catholic Church? Some Musings

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As the Church of England votes at long last to accept women bishops, Catholic News Service, the USCCB's  Pravda , is already (an...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

They Gave a Schism and Nobody Came: Commentary on Christian Right's Loss of Culture War vs. Gays in Europe and America, Transfer of Battle to Africa

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This tells me that discussion of the anti-gay politics of the U.S. religious right has gone mainstream (and thank God for that developm...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Archbishop of Canterbury Admits Churches' Defeat in Culture War v. Gays: My Response

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In his first address to the General Synod of the Anglican church, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby notes the "absurdity and ...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Diarmaid MacCulloch on How Same-Sex Marriage Is Leaving the Bishops Behind

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Diarmaid MacCulloch, "Same-Sex Marriage Leaves the Bishops Behind" :
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Angry Anglicans Swim Tiber to Rome: Maureen Fiedler and Lisa Fullam Examine Their Motives

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At National Catholic Reporter and Commonweal , Maureen Fiedler and Lisa Fullam  take a careful look at the implications of the Vatic...