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Dawn Stefanowicz and children like her are the most important voices in the debate over same-sex adoption. And yet the voices of adult children raised by homosexuals are rarely heard. Stefanowicz recently testified about her life with her biological father before a Massachusetts legislative committee in support of a marriage protection amendment. Read more.
COMMENTARY Sometimes very important elections receive very little attention.When the Southern Baptist Convention elected the Rev. Frank Page as the group’s president at its meeting this week in Greensboro, N.C., the news appeared on the back pages of most secular newspapers — or it didn’t appear at all. Read more.
7:06 p.m. COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Episcopal Church has elected the world’s first female presiding bishop, spurring a reaction of shock, delight and some dismay among thousands of delegates and bishops gathered here. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 52, bishop of the 6,000-member Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, is the church?s new presiding bishop, a post equivalent to that of archbishop. She beat out five men for the post, winning on the fifth ballot this afternoon. Read more.
The telephone call came just after we had finished our evening meal at the Knight’s Palace Hotel in the Old City of Jerusalem in May 2005. The message instructed me to come now to the library of the Greek Orthodox patriarch if I wanted to see the manuscript. Read more.
Divorce Care, a ministry focused on helping people find healthy, Christ-centered ways to deal with the devastating consequences of divorce, has been supported by High Point Church for many years. Through Divorce Care, many have renewed and/or strengthened their walk with Christ, and gone on to lead productive, healthy lives both personally and spiritually. Divorce Care also now offers DC4K for children of divorce.
Fourteen members of the Grace Episcopal congregation and Associate Pastor Roman Shemayev brought a complaint today against Bishop Steven A. Miller, accusing him of violating church law in bringing charges against Grace Rector Martha Ann Englert. Read more.
With fall referendums looming, the Wisconsin Conference of the United Methodist Church has passed a resolution opposing attack ads and urging congregations to hold forums in neutral, public places where state voters can have respectful dialogue on constitutional amendments that would install the death penalty and deny legal status to gay marriages and civil unions. Read more.
Gov. Jim Doyle launched a new state effort to fight poverty Thursday by signing an executive order to create the Wisconsin Office of Community Faith-Based Partnerships. Read more.
Before the start of worship services at Revealing Truth Ministries, four camera operators carefully train their lenses on the altar and the congregation. A small cadre of directors staff the control room to create what will soon become packaged broadcasts on local and national television stations. Read more.
The battle of the blogs is in full swing at the Episcopal General Convention meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Dozens of deputies, at least 11 bishops and a multitude of other hangers-on are using the Internet to slug it out over the same issues that the convention is considering through its conclusion Wednesday. Read more.