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When the Apostle Paul wrote of the “perversion” of men and women who committed “indecent acts” with those of the same sex, he was talking about people he understood to be heterosexuals engaging in same-sex acts, according to The Episcopal Church’s first actively-gay bishop.
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Washington D.C., Feb 5, 2010 / 03:20 am (CNA).- The first openly homosexual Episcopal bishop, V. Gene Robinson, has claimed that the Bible does not address the ethics of “monogamous, lifelong” homosexual relationships. He suggested that the people of St. Paul’s times did not realize that some people were “affectionally oriented” to their own sex.
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In his letter to the Romans, St. Paul was only condemning heterosexuals who engage in same-sex acts and not homosexuals, said the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual Episcopal bishop.
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Episcopalians in central Florida have committed to stay in The Episcopal Church as faithful, orthodox believers despite their disagreement with the liberal direction of the denomination.
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A judge has told the organization headed by former bishop Robert Duncan that claims to have withdrawn from the Episcopal Church in 2008 that it must turn over control of the Diocese of Pittsburgh’s assets.
In a Jan. 29 order County Court of Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. James accepted as accurate an inventory of diocesan property submitted by a “special master” he had appointed earlier and told Duncan’s organization it must transfer the assets.
The inventory includes $22 million in cash, cash equivalents, receivables, and investments including about $2.5 million in pooled parish investments and real estate and other real property.
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John Bryson Chane, the Episcopal bishop of Washington and one of the mainline denomination’s most prominent advocates of marriage equality for gay men and lesbians, announced Saturday that he will retire next year after leading the 42,000-person diocese since 2002.
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Lawyers for the Rev. Charles E. Bennison Jr., deposed bishop of the five-county Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, have asked a church appeals panel to overturn a church court’s 2008 decision to defrock him and remove him as diocesan bishop. That court,
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The chairperson of a group campaigning for women bishops says she is disappointed that the Rev. Alison Peden was not elected Britain’s first female Anglican bishop but that it is, “significant and encouraging” for a woman to have been one of the three candidates that the Scottish Episcopal Church considered, reports Ecumenical News International.
“It was good to think that we could have had a woman bishop in the Anglican church in Britain, and I am sure it will happen before long,” Christina… >>
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Rejecting offers to evacuate him from Port-au-Prince, Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin said Jan. 18 that he must remain in the Haitian capital.
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(AP) – SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Four years ago Kris and Jacqueline Wolford made a New Year’s resolution-get out of debt. This year, they are completely debt-free-not even a house payment-and they want to help other people learn how to do the same. “Having no debt takes so much of the worry out of your life,” says Kris Wolford. Wolford will lead a 13-week Financial Peace University course at his church, Christ Episcopal, in February. It will be among dozens of similar classes being…
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The Rev. David Moyer, the outspoken former Episcopal priest who unsuccessfully sued his bishop in 2008 for sacking him, has filed a malpractice lawsuit against the lawyer who represented him – often f…
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Churches in Zambia have joined together to fight the escalating problem of violence against women and children in their society, reports Ecumenical News International.
The pledge was agreed to by the southern African country’s three main church umbrellas, the Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia; the Council of Churches in Zambia, representing traditional Protestant and Anglican churches and the Zambia Episcopal Conference, representing Roman Catholic bishops.
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The Anglican congregation asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its argument over the La Crescenta property from which it was evicted.
An Anglican congregation evicted from its La Crescenta church in October after it lost a legal battle with the Episcopal Church asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to hear its case.
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For five years, members of Saint Anthony of Padua Episcopal Church, a conservative parish in the largely liberal Diocese of Newark, have sought spiritual guidance from a bishop in a socially conservative diocese in South Carolina.
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AP – The Episcopal Church should respond with “prayer and discernment” to the recent election of a lesbian priest as an assistant bishop of the Los Angeles diocese, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said Saturday.
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In the space of a week, Mary Glasspool has gone from being an obscure priest in Baltimore to the emblem of a growing international tempest over gay bishops in the Episcopal Church.
The lesbian priest with salt-and-pepper hair — one of two newly elected suffragan, or assistant, bishops in Los Angeles — has become a potent symbol of hope for gays in the national church but a portent of doom for traditionalists worried about their denomination unraveling.
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Two pastors talking about Jesus early on a Saturday morning would seem unlikely to draw a crowd, even with free doughnuts and coffee. But several hundred people are expected ? at $10 a ticket ? for such a discussion Saturday at Dallas’ Saint Michael and
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Domestic membership in the Episcopal Church dropped by 3 percent in 2008, continuing a decline in which the denomination has lost almost 200,000 American members since 2004, according to Episcopal researchers.
The Episcopal Church now counts slightly more than 2 million members in about 7,000 U.S. parishes.
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AP – The lesbian priest who was elected assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles said Tuesday that she was upset by claims that her role in the church is divisive.
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The spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion issued an unusually sharp and swift rebuke Sunday to church leaders in the U.S. over the election of a lesbian bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.