Day: August 7, 2012
5 new Young Adult Service Corps workers deployed
Five new workers in the
Badminton anyone?
B005 Substitute essentially changed the question of adoption from something requiring immediate response to a question we could answer at our leisure, when we are ready to do so. We changed the assumption of the game plan. – Mark Harris, Chair of the sub-committee on the Covenant
What is God Up To? How Can We help?
I have a friend who likes to summarize Christian life and mission this way: “Go out into the world awake and alert to see what it is that God is up to, and then ask, how can I participate? How can I help in whatever it is that God is already doing?”
+Douglas to permit same sex blessings and civil marriage in CT
Priests in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut may also officiate at the civil marriage of a same-sex couple as a “generous pastoral response” to lesbian and gay couples seeking to be married. +Douglas is a member of the Anglican Communion Standing Committee.
Talking snakes and traditional marriage
by Elizabeth Kaeton What makes a marriage Christian? What is the relationship between the Church’s blessing of a relationship, whether different-gender or same-gender, and a union, “marriage” or otherwise, created by civil law? Is the blessing of a same-gender relationship equivalent to the marriage of a different-gender couple, and if so, should this liturgy be […]