Sentences with phrase «anglican bishops»

A group of Anglican bishops has split with some of the church's top leaders to declare support for the current version of the same - sex marriage bill before Reba McEntire's ex Narvel Blackstock «dating her close friend» following shock split after 26 years of marriage.

On Wednesday, 36 Anglican bishops and more than 600 church leaders from all major denominations signed a letter demanding action from ministers.

Since 1999, the number of hereditaries has been frozen at 92, and there are 26 Anglican bishops.

The reconciliation meeting was attended by the traditional rulers of both communities, other community leaders and the Catholic and the Anglican Bishops of the area.

Around 700 Anglican bishops have marched through London in a call on developed countries to see through their millennium development goal (MDGs) commitments.

The president in a similar vein met with some Anglican bishops who urged him to end the menace of the herdsmen and pipeline vandalism in the country.

Wike who made this claim when he received the Anglican bishops of the Niger Delta Province in his office on Friday said he learnt of the pressure on the President during his meeting with the Commander - in - Chief at the State House.

Meanwhile, what of the 26 Anglican bishops whose position, very tellingly in view of how secular Britain allegedly now is, is never seriously challenged by anyone?

Sunder: religious organizations, acting as employers, have had certain exemptions from anti-discrimination law for some time, and I think I'm right in saying that the Anglican bishops acted to secure some version of these in the recent debates over the Equality Bill...?

The row follows a recent open letter from 27 Anglican bishops accusing the coalition government of forcing people to choose between «heating and eating».

In face of the threat of Anglican bishops, the Congregationalists drew closer to the Presbyterians, with whom they felt a theological affinity.

Eventually, Newman discovered that his own Anglican bishops not only failed to teach the principles of the via media but opposed them.

And the personnel of the conference, though mostly clad in the common garments of international commerce and convention, has its sartorial highlights — Eastern Orthodox archbishops with flowing robes and patriarchal beards, Russian priests with towering headdresses, Anglican bishops in aprons and gaiters, Lutheran bishops who wear their gowns and pectoral crosses even at the breakfast table.

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

For the benefit of other readers: reference for my quote in Austin's top post — google and research evangelical Scott Lively, Uganda, Pope Benedict & Anglican bishops regarding events for the past seven years resulting in hysteria and crimes against humanity there.

Mr Furman's being joined during the question and answer session on Thursday by the Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu and several local Anglican bishops.

The pub, already called The Mitre (a headpiece worn by Anglican Bishops) cost # 500,000 and was most recently used as a Chinese restaurant and takeaway.

For, most confusingly, his John Knox persona suddenly turns into the reincarnation of Bishop Thomas Crammer, when, not forty pages later, he starts defending the hierarchy, albeit of the Anglican variety: «Pope Benedict XVI,» Wills sneers, «when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, wrote in 1998 that it is an infallible teaching of the church that Anglican bishops and priests are fake bishops and priests, dispensing fake sacraments, because they are outside the apostolic succession.»

Last month we criticised the mistaken but understandable proposal of some Anglican bishops for a UN declaration outlawing the insulting of other people's religions.

The thing had a faintly»70s flavour — Daily Mail headlines sounding appropriately shocked etc — and the story, as it emerged from the layers of cliché, was not particularly impressive: something called the «Transformations Steering Group» had announced that Anglican bishops should promote more «expansive language and imagery about God».

These parishes typically affiliate with Anglican bishops who remain committed to traditional doctrine.

Toward the close of 1939 she lamented that «most of my quasi-pacifist friends are becoming more warlike,» Grieved to see the Anglican bishops on the side of war - fare, she was somewhat consoled that numbers of clergy did oppose the hostilities.

This formidable move in response to requests over the course of twenty years from Anglican bishops, priests, and laity offers a way for Anglicans and other Protestants as well as unconfirmed Catholics to be received into the full communion of the unified Catholic Church while retaining and developing the Anglican patrimony of liturgy, music, patristic theology, and pastoral care.

When Anglican bishops from Nigeria announced that they were going to establish episcopal oversight for local churches that could not in conscience remain in the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori vigorously protested.

We can pray for future unity, the Anglican bishops regretted the split and Catholics can pray with and for their brethren but Catholics are not celebating it.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

Unwilling to accept women bishops, five Anglican bishops quit the church.

There she claimed to have received a directive from God to tell the Anglican bishops assembled for the Lambeth Conference that the primary purpose of intercourse was not the procreation of children.

Marking a new era for the Roman Catholic Church in England, three former Anglican bishops were ordained as Catholic priests in London on Saturday, the first to take advantage of a new Vatican program that makes it easier for dissatisfied Anglicans to enter Catholicism.

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

The Anglican bishop of Taiwan has said the Church will do its best to help the victims of an earthquake... More

The Anglican bishop of Harare has told Premier any transition in Zimbabwe must be peaceful, as the country's political turmoil continues to unfold.

Desmond Tutu, then Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, had just returned from one of his trips abroad where he openly sought support for the fight against the racial policies of his country At an airport news conference in Johannesburg, he declared that he was not at all worried about his passport being confiscated yet again.

D.C. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Anglican bishop N. T. Wright of Durham (England) have promoted SR as a key to Muslim - Christian - Jewish relations in England.

And that one voice, an Anglican bishop — Christopher Ssenyonjo, was silenced; given walking papers; essentially excommunicated if he were a Catholic.

I, too, fondly remember the olden days when an Anglican bishop could stir up a storm over sex.

An Anglican bishop who was present at Hillsborough on the day 96 people died has told Premier that we need to be praying for the families of the victims following the announcement that six people will face criminal charges in connection with the disaster.

Some years ago, in conversation with a prominent Anglican bishop in Britain, I asked how he would define the mission of the Church of England.

The Anglican bishop of South Sydney has told Premier the events at a cafe in the city where a number of people are being held hostage «reminds you in the midst of...

The Anglican bishop responsible for prisons says the Church of England must put more pressure on the government to tackle problems in jails.

Calling himself a «spiritual mutt,» Charisma editor Grady said that he now attends Orlando's New Covenant Church, which broke from the Episcopal Church to align itself with the Anglican Mission in America and the Anglican bishop of Rwanda.

Apparently, the Church's presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, has adopted a policy of refusing to sell church property to any group that intends to affiliate with an Anglican bishop.

There must be a winnowing and sifting of its essential meaning from its inessential forms — to the extent, indeed, implied by an Anglican bishop in the seventeenth century who remarked that «the most useful of all books on theology would be one with the title De Paucitate Credendorum, on the fewness of the things which a man must believe.

Born and baptized in blood, the Church in Egypt is hardly a newcomer to hardship, notes Egypt's Anglican bishop.

The Anglican bishop of Harare said the resignation of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is a momentous... More

The nineteenth - century Anglican bishop, J. J. Stewart Perowne, who knew this tradition well, wrote about the importance of the Psalter in the life and liturgy of the church through the ages:

Some years before Revelation was written, Paul was sending letters to churches in Asia Minor and Greece to build up the Christ - rooted societies with an egalitarian credo, recognizing believers whether they were Greek or Jew, male or female, slave or free, These assemblies stood «in contrast to the hierarchical social relations» in the empire, Horsley wrote in Paul and Empire, a book deemed significant by Wright, a New Testament scholar and the Anglican bishop of Durham.

In early November 2006 (just after the midterm elections here in the United States), N.T. Wright, the well - known New Testament scholar and Anglican bishop of Durham, delivered a public lecture in Durham Cathedral asking, «Where is God in «The War on Terror»?»

I suppose when the only Anglican bishop that was making a different to quell hysteria and fears there over gays was stripped of his position, that only contributed to the result we see today.

As the Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar John A.T. Robinson says in his lucid book The Body: A Study in Pauline Theology (a book - length exegesis of this word in the Pauline epistles):