May 17, 2013
- 1) Bethany Seminary trustees hold spring meeting. 2) Seventy-year-old Brethren Pension Plan transforms in 2013. 3) BDM directs grants to support rebuilding in New York, send canned chicken to the Caribbean. 4) Dinner celebrates completion of Prattsville, N.Y., rebuilding project. 5) Material Resources ships 27,000 pounds of clean-up supplies to Illinois, CWS appeals for help to restock. 6) Delegation visits emerging church in Spain. 7) Campaign brings healing and engagement to Paul Ziegler’s...
Roy Bay, obispo anglicano de Auckland en Nueva Zelanda, ha sido acusado de discriminación ante un tribunal de Derechos Humanos, por negarle a un hombre gay entrada para el proceso de ordenación. El hombre, Eugene Sisneros, no recibió la aprobación del obispo porque vive con otra persona del mismo sexo violando así el canon de castidad exigido por la diócesis.
Una madre del estado de Michigan ha protestado ante el distrito escolar argumentando que el diario de Ana Frank contiene...
May 16, 2013
- Brethren Disaster Ministries staff are directing grant money to support a continuing home rebuilding effort in New York State following flooding caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011, and a church effort to distribute canned chicken in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
- On May 1, more than 75 people gathered at Prattsville Community Church in the New York Catskills to celebrate all the work Brethren Disaster Ministries volunteers have done. Delicious dinner and desserts were provided by the church and community for volunteers and homeowners.
- A small group of neighbors in Western New York, with inspiration from the United Church of Christ's Mission 4/1 Earth, banded together to clean up one of the area's few remaining natural habitats –– the Great Baehre wildlife refuge in Amherst.
May 15, 2013
[General Theological Seminary -- Press Release] The Rev. Kurt H. Dunkle was elected on May 14, 2013 to be the 13th Dean and President of The General Theological Seminary in New York City by the GTS...May 15, 2013
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The “Nuns on the Bus” are revving up their engines for another national campaign, only this time...
[Episcopal News Service] Some Episcopal Church congregations in the Diocese of Minnesota will decide to marry same-sex couples when a new state law goes into effect in August and some will not, and Bishop Brian Prior says that difference “represents the diversity and the comprehensive nature of who we are as Episcopalians and Anglicans.”
Writing on his...
May 10, 2013
[Harvard Divinity School -- Press Release] The HDS Alumni/Alumnae Council (AAC) is pleased to announce four new members, who will begin terms of service on July 1, 2013: Peter K. Anagnostos, MTS ’86, of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Christopher J. Hanson, MDiv ’10, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Shenila Khoja-Moolji, MTS ’10, and Margaret R. Rose, MDiv ’79, both of New York, New York.
Julia Whitcavitch-DeVoy, MTS ’94, of Newton, Massachusetts,...
[Sewanee] A Convocation for the Conferring of Degrees will be held in All Saints’ Chapel at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 10, to recognize the 42 students who have completed their studies at The School of Theology. The preacher for this year’s commencement service is Bishop Wright from the Diocese of Atlanta. A luncheon in McClurg Hall honoring the class of 2013 seminary graduates, their guests, families, faculty, and staff will follow the service. The convocation will be streamed live...