It is a historical fact that Anglicans and Lutherans have no mutual doctrinal anathemae between them. Yet they have acted over the years as if they were separated by mutual condemnations.
11 January 2001
The Rt Revd C Christopher Epting, Bishop of Iowa, has announced his resignation. He will move to New York City and become deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations for the Episcopal Church beginning in mid-April.
09 January 2001
We have come together this morning as Lutheran and Anglican Christians, along with members of other households of faith, to celebrate the fact that, through baptism into the death and resurrection of Christ, we are limbs and members of Christ's risen body, the Church.
08 January 2001
After ten years as President and Provost of Thorneloe University, the Rev. Dr. Don Thompson has resigned to take up a position as General Secretary of the world-wide body of Anglican Universities and Colleges.
02 January 2001
The Rev'd Charles Henry Long, Jr., D.D., a major figure in the world mission of the Episcopal Church, died 17 November at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, after a struggle with lymphoma. His wife Nancy is grateful for any way this news can be shared with mission activists throughout the Church.
01 December 2000
The Archbishop of Cape Town, Njongonkulu Ndungane, will be among an exclusive group of international delegates to the White House World AIDS Day Summit and representatives of the denominational and faith-based development community in the US (about 35 people in all) who are scheduled to meet President Bill Clinton today at 4pm (SA time)
01 December 2000
Instead, we find ourselves in a bleak midwinter of fear and rage, rocks and bullets, which have turned the land of Jesus' birth into a war zone. Yet the Middle East is only one place among many in which neighbor is pitted against neighbor, and religious differences are exploited in the service of hatred.
20 November 2000
Washington, DC - With the backing of a diverse coalition of churches and charitable organizations, Congress agreed this evening to provide full funding for the U.S. share of an international initiative to write off the debts of some of the world's poorest countries. This agreement clears the last remaining hurdle for the Foreign Operations appropriations bill to move to the President, who has indicated his support
31 October 2000
Prominent figures in the Episcopal Church in the United States have been honoured at the annual convocation of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The convocation also hosted a lecture by the first woman bishop in the Church of Canada.
31 October 2000
The current dean of Yale University Divinity School, Dr Richard J Wood, has been appointed as the new President of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia. Dr Wood will take up the new position in January 2001
30 October 2000