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Pope Wows Massive American Audience*Pope Vows War on Poverty/Climate change...

Image: Observant love. True love is always observant, and the eyes of Jesus never missed the sight of need. Nobody could accuse him of being like the priest and Levite in his parable of the Good...

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We are in a Spiritual War*Pope Francis: Compassion without...

Image: Radical and conservative. It is not sufficiently understood that our Lord Jesus Christ was at one and the same time a conservative and a radical although in different spheres. There is no...

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GS Primates Will Test Communion Boundaries in January*Kenya Condemns...

Image: "One of the greatest threats to the Christian church is not heretics or false teachers, but rather those who have the right theology but are willing to overlook and tolerate gross error for the...

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TEC's Attendance Figures Show Increasing Decline*GAFCON Primates and Welby...

Image: Held in high honor. Even in other religions and ideologies Jesus is held in high honour. Hindus would gladly recognize him as an 'avatar' (descent) of Vishnu, and so assimilate him into...

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Last Tango in Canterbury? * CofE Evangelicals Rejoice in Synod Election...

Image: "I think the one thing missing from the [Roman Catholic] Synod is a prophetic voice-- a prophetic voice where we just call the sin a sin like John the Baptist. But this is a pastoral synod, so...

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Maryland Bishop Heather Cook Gets 7 Years in Hit-n-Run * PB-Elect Curry's...

Image: Unsullied love. Only one act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive, has ever been performed in the history of the world, namely the self-giving of God in Christ on the cross...

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Curry's Consecration * ACNA Archbishop Responds * Historic Episcopal Parish...

Image: No matter, The Episcopal Church's bishops in all their Almay array heralded a man who says he believes in Jesus...talks up Jesus' love, the Jesus Movement, Jesus for racial equality, Jesus for...

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TEC losses increase * Pittsburgh Bishop Duncan to Retire * LGBT Lobby in CofE...

Image: ON THE CHURCH: What we are experiencing, my friends, is not just a natural cycle, not just a pendulum swing. There is a mountain of evidence--still growing--that we are well into a monumental...

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Church Pension Fund to Offer Benefits to SS Partners * TEC Lesbian Bishop...

Image: It becomes progressively more and more difficult to find worthwhile stuff about which to blog or comment these days. My erstwhile denomination, the Episcopal Church (USA), has sunk into the mire...

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PEW says TEC Dead Last in Church Involvement. Only 13% of Parishioners Active...

Image: It was another black eye for the Episcopal Church this week when the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America...

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Sudanese Anglicans Break with US Episcopal Church * Large TEC Parish Flees LI...

Image: The Episcopal Church of the Sudan hurled an ecclesiastical bomb at the American Episcopal Church this week and announced that they were severing all ties with the US Church because TEC had...

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Latest TEC Attendance Figures Show More Decline * New Hampshire Attendance...

Image: No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.--Edward R. Murrow, broadcast journalistA transcendent event. An example of the importance of considering each part of...

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Presiding Bishop Suspends Top Staff at National Headquarters * Episcopal...

Image: UNITED STATES. The empty suit met the man with few brains...and lo and behold, they turned out to be one and the same person: TEC's new fearless, "Don't worry be happy" Presiding Bishop, Michael...

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PB Hires Law Firm to Investigate TEC Top Brass * Adulterous VTS Professor...

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Kentucky Priest Forced to Resign over Gay Marriage Refusal * Anglican Priest...

Image: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) have been rising among gay and bisexual men, with increases in syphilis being seen across the country. In 2013, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex...

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Welby Attempts Split Between GAFCON Primates * Ugandan Primate says he will...

Image: The baptism of the Spirit. The teaching of the Pentecostal churches, and of many people in the charismatic or neo-Pentecostal movement, is that we receive the 'gift' of the Spirit when we first...

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CANTEREBURY: Ball is Now Squarely in Episcopal Church Court. * TEC: To Rebel...

Image: The Pope has reportedly urged non-Catholics not to convert. In July 2014, he told a group of Evangelicals at a lunch in Rome: "I'm not interested in converting Evangelicals to Catholicism. I...

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North American Anglicans on the Way Up * Episcopal Diocese of PA seeks New...

Image: Consider the following. Over the last two decades the following churches, missions and organizations have emerged as signs of God's love for his faithful Anglican fold. First came the AMiA, then...

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AAC's Authority Challenged over Primatial Admission * Pittsburgh Anglican...

Image: It was an assumption made first by Canon John L. Peterson, then Canon Kenneth Kearon who succeeded him and now Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, the former Anglican Archbishop of the Province of Kaduna...

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Church like State is Polarized * Progressive Episcopalians Turn on Themselves...

Image: If there are lessons for the Church to be learned from the current political malaise and polarization in American politics, it is that truth will not be subject to endless dialogue,...

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