Eight General Seminary Professors “Resign” Without Their Knowledge
Things have gone off the rails at NYC’s General Theological Seminary in a spectacular way.
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Right Wing Morality is Costing the Church of England Dearly
At last. The Church of England’s General Synod has voted to allow women bishops. A…
Read MoreMarriage is Not a Sacrament for Protestants and Why that Matters to LGBT Christians
Recently, well meaning Episcopal clergy and lay leaders have been urging the church to “extend the sacrament…
Read MoreGod at the Gay Pride Parade
As LGBT Pride Month gets under way, more religious groups are joining the celebration.
Read MoreVA Supreme Court Gives Episcopal Church Victory Over Breakaways
Court says conservatives can’t take historic property with them when they leave.
Read MoreEpiscopal Church Removes Bishop Who Split Following LGBT Inclusion Vote
Still wrangling over the property.
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Is the Episcopal Church a Bain Capital Investor?
“I thought about asking my church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn’t.”
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Preaching to the ‘Moveable Middle’: Bishop Gene Robinson on Marriage Equality and the Election
In the book, Gene Robinson tackles questions like why marriage is an issue for LGBT people, why straight people should support it and why civil unions, while they are a good first step, simply won’t be enough to satisfy the LGBT community.
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The Episcopal Church ‘Takes a Flying Leap’ into Controversies Old and New
It goes almost without saying that mainline Protestantism is in an extended period of at least numerical, if not spiritual, decline, and many commentators have taken the occasion of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church—still an important symbol of normative American religiosity—to mark the beginning of the End Times for liberal Christianity and perhaps religion in general. Others have strained mightily to see glimmers of hope even in the confusion and controversy that swirls such gatherings. We of course have no idea how it will all play out.
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For Douthat, Church Either Uncompromising or a Secular Den of Promiscuity and Irrelevance
A Sweet Valley High primer on liberal Christianity.
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