Sentences with phrase «by episcopal»

The Child and Family Research Partnership (CFRP) has been awarded a grant by the Episcopal Health Foundation to support the state - funded implementation of Family Connects, an evidence - based universal home visiting program, in Austin.

This blog contains Musings about the spiritual life and the mission of the Church by an Episcopal parish priest.

[Note: See recent decision by the Episcopal Church to divest.]

Limestone's Co-Pastor Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is a hymn writer with hymns in collections published by the Episcopal, United Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian Reformed, Community of Christ, United Church of Canada, and has been featured three times on national PBS - TV.

A New York State judge has approved a plan by the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island to retain control of and reopen a school it closed last year, rejecting an attempt by a group of parents, alumni, and teachers to take it over.

Filmmaker Damon Cardasis discovered a program by an Episcopal parish in New York's West Village that targets at risk LGBTQ youth through his mother, an Episcopalian priest in the Bronx.

The percentage of Texans without health insurance dropped 31 percent since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a new report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

For all these souls you have the heaviest and a constantly increasing responsibility... No man can be assured of his salvation by an episcopal function.»

Two of those leaders, Major - Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and the UGCC's «foreign minister,» Bishop Borys Gudziak, are the heirs, by episcopal consecration and conviction, of the heroes of the UGCC in the twentieth century: the Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky; Cardinal Josyf Slipyj; Cardinal Lubomyr Husar.

His proposal, made in San Francisco just before a National Council assembly, was quickly seconded by Episcopal Bishop James Pike, and the idea was dubbed the Blake - Pike proposal.

Continuing specialized ministries under church auspices have been maintained for many years by the Episcopal Church, a number of Lutheran bodies and most other denominations in greater or lesser degree.

Saturday's march called by the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua also drew tens of thousands of participants, including students, representatives of the private sector and opponents of the construction of an interoceanic canal.

This year will undoubtedly bring final approval by the Episcopal General Convention of the Book of Common Prayer on the basis of the Proposed Book of 1976.

He wrote in his letter:»... I have deep concerns that the participation by our Episcopal colleagues in the consecration of Canon Lines, with or without the support of their respective dioceses, is contrary to the spirit of the canons of the Council of Nicaea and, most importantly, outside of the authority of our National Constitution.

• Historian James Hitchcock has an insightful column comparing the formal similarities shared by the Episcopal Church in the United States and the New York Times: One is losing members, the other subscribers.

Not exact matches

Far from seeking his own advancement, each move up the echelons of the episcopal ladder has been met with surprise by Justin Welby, perhaps influenced by the fact he was told there wasn't «place for him in the modern Church of England» when he first applied for ordination.

I read an interesting article that research was done on the Bible by Rev. Lindsay Hardin Freeman, an Episcopal priest.

«Primates» Communique, Windsor Report Draw Praise, Criticism,» by Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal Life Online, 6 February 2009.

And they are in a difficult spot, since many laymen, humiliated by the abuse scandal, have demanded strong episcopal action.

However Katharine Jefferts Schori, of The Episcopal Church, said in a statement: «I rejoice that the Supreme Court has opened the way for the love of two people to be recognized by all the states of this Union, and that the Court has recognized that it is this enduring, humble love that extends beyond the grave that is to be treasured by society wherever it exists.

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

When the dust has settled, if it does settle, we will be doing something more comprehensive on the «heresy trial» of retired Episcopal Bishop Walter C. Righter for having violated church order by ordaining a homosexual not pledged to chastity.

''... increasingly drawn to high church traditions — Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc.» Your vaunted BS meter should be glowing red by now.

Thus Mary and I felt rescued when we were invited to join the staff of Grace Church, New York City, by FitzSimons Allison, who was then Rector there and who himself had been a lonely voice in the Episcopal seminaries.

The pope made the decision following a request made by Cardinal Claudio Hummes, the president of the Episcopal Commission for the Amazon, Il Messaggero newspaper reported a Vatican source as revealing.

It is due to this profoundly personal sacramental meaning of the body that we find a consistent teaching about homosexuality in the Bible (Gn 3 and 19:1 - 11; Lev 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Cor 6:9; Rm 1:18 - 32; 1 Tim 1) and throughout the tradition, wherein this teaching would be infallibly taught by the ordinary universal episcopal magisterium.

Thistle Farms - Founded in 1997 by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest on Vanderbilt's campus, Magdalene is a residential program for women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution and addiction.

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....

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.

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

Bolles is himself an Episcopal priest; this ministry arose out of a project he was asked to do by the national Episcopal Church to help priests who were «becoming civilians.»

Family life, just war, contraception, a living wage, organized labor, race relations, and a host of other problems are treated in official episcopal statements or commentary by influential Catholics.

Founded in 1997 by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest on Vanderbilt's campus, Magdalene is a residential program for women who have survived lives of prostitution, trafficking, addiction and life on the streets.

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.

The consecration service will be attended by around 500 people including some from other faith communities across the UK and the Episcopal Church in the US.

The service will be led by the Most Rev Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

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.»

Choosing to contrast Roman Catholicism principally with the Protestant tradition in which he was raised, he would have strengthened his argument by also addressing why he found inadequate the Episcopal church in which he spent most of his adult life.

In fact, when l learn what's meant by «abbot» and «episcopal» When I have clearly understood why Mass precludes a disco ball When I distinguish easily dissent from sensus fidei And when I know the diff» rence twixt a rose window and rosary When I can sing the Salve like a dutiful Gregorian When I know all my heresies, Arian and Nestorian In short when I have exercised my understanding to the full A better ultramontanist never bestrode a papal bull

Similar statements have been made by the Catholic gay group, Dignity; the Episcopal group, Integrity; the Methodist group, Affirmation; the Metropolitan Community Church; Evangelicals Concerned and others.

By 1900 The churches had compiled an impressive record: black Baptist associations were supporting some 80 elementary schools and 18 academies and colleges; the African Methodist Episcopal churches were underwriting 32 secondary and collegiate institutions; and the smaller AME Zion denomination was supporting eight.

As Bishop John Hurst Adams of the African Methodist Episcopal Church observed recently, black churches are operating essentially on the agenda given to them by their founders.

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

Repeatedly he argued that the introduction of women priests, the new prayer book and other changes in the Episcopal Church had taken it out of the mainstream of Episcopalianism; that in fact the schismatic group, by separating itself from all that «error,» is the faithful remnant.

«This is what we say,» said Mary Boxley, who pulled a three - by - five file card from her purse and began reading from her handwritten notes: «The Episcopal Church has departed from the historic faith.

Levenson said he was asked by Neil Bush - one of Mrs Bush's six children - to offer a few words before he knelt with the family members, who held hands and recited the traditional Episcopal «prayers at the time of dying».

Andrew White, who would become the founding president of Cornell University, one of the first institutions explicitly nonsectarian from its foundation, had been soured by his one year at a small Episcopal college.

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.»

«51 Writing in Christianity Today, Episcopal Bishop Bennett Sims makes much the same conclusion, finding in Galatians 5:16 («walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh») evidence that an orientation that is not enacted need not be judged sinful.52