Sentences with phrase «episcopal bishops»

One Roman Catholic prelate, for instance, recently found himself on a platform with several Episcopal bishops, including a woman bishop.

At Heath, however, her father took a regular preaching turn, the congregants were family friends and the cast of supply preachers included Robbins, Episcopal bishops Charles Gilbert and Angus Dun, Episcopal theologians William Wolf and Sherman Johnson, Presbyterian theologian Robert McAfee Brown and Episcopal rector Worcester Perkins.

The Easter edition of the Sunday magazine had a long article on Episcopal bishops ordaining homosexuals, written by gay advocate Bruce Bawer.

One social entrepreneur we interviewed for our book Breakthrough Entrepreneurship, an Episcopal bishop named Rev. William Swing, put it this way:

The Episcopal bishop of Washington once pleaded with FDR, as he slipped into his car after a service, to entrust his own corpse to the cathedral.

But those seated in the cathedral noticed one participant missing, Episcopal Bishop Marc Andrus, the local Episcopal bishop.

Otis Charles - described by the Times as «the only openly gay Episcopal bishop,» thereby implying that others are in the closet — says, «The new phenomenon is that we're no longer willing to remain silent and invisible.

The son of the Episcopal bishop of Connecticut, Acheson movingly described the ways in which the King James Bible, which the new RSV was to supplant, had once shaped American culture and our national life:

The election and consecration of Barbara Harris as an Episcopal bishop signaled hope for many of us.

An Episcopal bishop, James Pike, and a United Presbyterian executive, Eugene Carson Blake, drew up a proposal for a body that would work to achieve unity within a decade.

But along the way I noticed his interest in the Bishop Pike story, an American Episcopal bishop who was tried for heresy beginning in 1962.

As William G. Weinhauer, the Episcopal bishop of Western North Carolina, pointed out after attending a church - growth course:

Poor John Spong, Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ.

On the other hand, The Rev. Paul Moore, New York Episcopal bishop, affirmed: «The movie is artistically excellent and theologically sound.

The world conference on faith and order so ably headed by the American Episcopal bishop, Dr. Brent, also continued its activity.

Spong, a retired Episcopal bishop, declares that «the people who think they understand God are always hurtful to other people....

At a meeting in Sydney at which John Shelby Spong, the Episcopal bishop of Newark in the US, spoke about his book Saving the Bible from Fundamentalism, an ex-fundamentalist and skeptical young man asked Bishop Spong this question.

One time actually, I heard an Episcopal bishop speak on the issue... he said water is beyond a right.

Not exact matches

Bishop Michael, from North Carolina, succeeds the Episcopal Church's first female presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and will be installed on 1 November.

Michael Curry has become the first African - American presiding bishop of the US Episcopal Church.

Msgr. Thomas Herron of Philadelphia is quoted as saying, «No episcopal document can be expected to satisfy those who reject the right of bishops to speak on this issue in the first place.»

Bishops such as William C. Wantland of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who is a signer of the Righter presentment, worries that the Episcopal Church is declining because it seems not to stand for anything.

It includes fifteen statements from various episcopal conferences and individual bishops in Europe and North America, as well as the Holy See's «We Remember: Reflections on the Shoah,» with accompanying commentaries.

The author also features the stories of two standout US Episcopal Church leaders: presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Chilton Knudsen, assistant bishop of New York.

After the Episcopal Church ordained its second openly gay bishop in 2010, Matthews began reading more and eventually embraced a theology that suggests gay Christians do not need to be celibate.

The large divergence of episcopal opinion revealed (concerning the modern relevance of church teaching, for instance on contraception) is never reflected in the directives of our national Conference of Bishops.

On August 5, 2003, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA), following initial action by the House of Deputies of ECUSA's General Convention, gave its consent (by a ratio of roughly 60 - 40) to the election of the Reverend V. Gene Robinson to become the next Bishop of the....

Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.

Rev. Michael Curry, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, tells the story of a young woman who became an Episcopalian in the 1940s.

Sadly, this call for episcopal discretion in political matters is belied at every turn by the bishops» heavy - handed lobbying, in the parishes and in the legislatures, for a particular program of immigration reform.

«The blame can not be laid at the door of those who are seeking to be faithful, who are saying «look we want to be an Episcopal Church, we believe in bishops, but we believe in biblical bishops who hold to sound doctrine and publically refute false doctrine and false behaviour.»

In that custodial role a handful of Greek bishops continue to exercise authority over a community almost entirely Arab Orthodox in membership (today numbering about 40,000 in Israel, 120,000 in Jordan), whose constant complaint is of episcopal intolerance and the spiritual and organizational impoverishment of the «indigenous church.»

Granted, there are female bishops in the Episcopal Church here in the U.S., but a blow to our sisters in the UK still feels like a blow to us all.

Conscious of his responsibilities to the Church throughout the world, he made extensive use of the episcopal conferences mandated by Vatican II and of the Synod of Bishops which he himself had established during the Council.

That is an old - fashioned way of saying that episcopal competence is not the same when the bishops are dealing with applications as it is when they propose general principles.

Not surprisingly, some think they detect an effort to «democratize» the Church by establishing — somewhat along the lines of the Episcopal Church — a «house of delegates» composed of laity to balance the «house of bishops.»

These are the very same bishops who maintain an ultra-conservative stance on the faith (which amazingly benifits them over the needs of thier flocks) and who continue to intefere in the Episcopal Church in the US.

Moreover, in 1970 the Associated Members of the Episcopal Conference of Eastern Africa, which includes the Catholic bishops of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, affirmed the declaration as a basis for parents» right to choose their children's education and for the right of free expression and association.

Accordingly, all thoughtful and concerned Methodists rejoiced when, in the great Episcopal Address of the bishops of The Methodist Church to the General Conference of 1952, there was a forthright statement in contemporary terminology of what Methodists believe.

(«The Episcopal Address of the Bishops,» Journal of the 1952 General Conference of The Methodist Church [Nashville: The Methodist Publishing House], pp. 155 - 56.)

The bishop in question this time is Richard Holloway of Edinburgh, the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, who gave an interview averring that there's nothing wrong with sodomy and sadomasochism so long as it is consensual.

Best thing the Episcopal Church did in America was to allow women to serve as Priest and Bishops.

A few leaders of major communions were conspicuously absent from the meeting with the pope, including the presiding bishops of the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, both of whom pleaded prior engagements.

Whatever else he is, the pope is a bishop among bishops, and both he and they know that the integrity and well - being of the Church depend on the credibility and authority of the episcopal office.

My own Episcopal church, like many mainline churches, is a top down organization at the local level, headed by a bishop.

In a recent joint episcopal address titled «The Church at Worship, the Church at Work,» the United Methodist bishops of the Northeast Jurisdiction comment on the «debilitating syndrome» whereby «far too many congregations are damaged by lay apathy and clergy domination.»

Resurrection's Web site blames the turmoil over Great Shepherd on the lack of episcopal oversight — now provided by AMIA and African bishops.

During this time the ranks of St. Mark's, an Episcopal congregation in Glen Ellyn, had been swelling — until the Episcopal Church consecrated an openly gay bishop in 2003, whereupon many St. Mark's members left to form All Souls, still another AMIA church, in Wheaton.

Again, men might argue that of all systems of Church government that by bishops, called episcopal, was most successful, of widest use, and of greatest antiquity.

When AMIA leaders talked to me about their departure from the Episcopal Church, they focused more on the doctrinal problems represented by Bishop Spong than on the sexual issues raised by the election of gay bishop V. Gene Robinson.