A small but appropriately noisy group of determined protestors showed up outside the Church of the Advent, Boston, last night in order to protest the presence of Dallas bishop George Sumner at the church. Sumner was giving a Lenten presentation on Anglo-Catholicism. Below is a video Anglican Watch received from
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Episcopal bishop Alan Gates and the Diocese of Massachusetts shrug off child rape
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the
Continue readingTime to ask Barb Kempf some tough questions, and other steps for improving clergy discipline in the Episcopal Church
Today’s post is about Title IV, the Episcopal clergy disciplinary canons. Specifically, what reasonable steps can we take to improve Title IV? For starters, let’s look at how Title IV functions today. Our take—far from unbiased—is that the best-managed cases rise to mediocrity. Those cases are few and far between,
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