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(1) The judge in the property trial of Grace and St. Stephen's in Colorado has ruled that the Colorado Springs church building belongs to the Diocese of Colorado and not a breakaway parish. An Anglican congregation led by Donald Armstrong took over the church property in March 2007. Read the Episcopal Cafe report and the Episcopal News Service story. If you're curious about how much coverage this story is getting nationaly, go to Google News and type the following words in the search box: Colorado grace episcopal.
(2) Diocesan Scholarships for the 2009-2010 Academic Year: (A) Leonard Hall Scholarships: College scholarships for diocesan youth active in youth ministries. Deadline for application is May 15. Contact person is Archdeacon Howard Stringfellow, Diocesan House, 610-691-5655, ext. 222 or 1-800-358-5655. Email to: Ely Valentin or the Archdeacon. (B) Gressle Scholarships: College scholarships for sons of clergy canonically resident in the diocese. Deadline for application is May 15. Contact person is Archdeacon Howard Stringfellow, Diocesan House, 610-691-5655, ext. 222 or 1-800-358-5655. Email to: Ely Valentin or the Archdeacon. (C) Shannon Fund Scholarships: For daughters of clergy resident in Pennsylvania. Priority is given to clergy families in the Diocese of Bethlehem. Applications are available from Edna Rauco at Trinity Church, Pottsville (570-622-8720 and trinitypottsville@verizon.net). Deadline for submission of application is April 30.
(3) President Obama has named Emily C. Hewitt, an Episcopal priest, as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. She was amng the "Philadelphia 11, the first women ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1974, two years before the Episcopal Church formally allowed the ordination of women. She taught at Andover Newton Theological School before embarking on a legal career. Hewitt is married to Eleanor Dean Acheson, formerly director of public policy and government affairs for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. According to a Religion News Service story, the court is "responsible for cases involving monetary claims against the U.S. government. Hewitt has served on the federal court since 1998, when she was confirmed by the Senate. Her appointment as chief judge does not require Senate approval."
todaySignup Signup online for diocesan events. At www.diobeth.org, click on "signup" in the righthand column.
• Ian Douglas to lecture in Bethlehem, tomorrow, March 26. Registrations for dinner will no longer be accepted, but
you may still register for either or both of the lectures, or even walk in a pay at the door.
• Diocesan Training for Ministry, this Saturday, March 28, Wilkes-Barre.
• Organ recital at St. Stephen's Wilkes-Barre, Sunday, March 29.
• Mission in the 21st Century/Beating the Boundaries, April 25.
• Christophany Goes Green, April 24-26. (Registration closes March 31.)
• ECW Annual Meeting, May 13, Kirby House.
todayStory (2) United Church of Christ News will discontinue its denominational paper in a few months for an online version. Seattle Post-Intelligencer finally pulled the plug on its money-losing but historic print edition, and will attempt to make a go at producing a news website with a few dozen journalists. It will be a test case
for other major newspapers thinking of doing the same. If they succeed
in making such a venture profitable, others will surely follow. If not,
others might try, or they might decide to close up shop completely. In Denver, where another city has become a one-newspaper
town, former staff at the Rocky Mountain News are trying to do the same
thing, even though their publisher decided not to. So they’ve made a pledge that if they can get 50,000 people to subscribe for $5 a month, they’ll start up an online newspaper. Major changes in April at the Christian Science Monitor include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting weekly print and daily e-mail editions,
and discontinuing the current daily print format. Listen to a roundtable discussion, March 10 at Columbia Jounalism School, on the future of newspapers. Finally, this essay on Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. (3) Deputies are assigned to General Convention committees. Episcopal Cafe report here. ENS story here. todayShow (2) The Boston Globe's Michael Paulson reports on Bishop Gene Robinson's lecture at Trinity Church in Boston. And Trinity has posted audio of the lecture here. todaySoundbite todayShare (2) Just as everyone in America is affected by the economic crisis, so,
too, are their parishes. Here, a few innovative tips – some practical
and some pastoral – from parishes and people around the country on how
they are handling these difficult times. (Hat tip to Ann Fontaine, reporting on Episcopal Cafe] todaySorrow todaySting todaySummary
(1) Five Marks of Mission: •To proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom, •To teach baptize and nurture new believers, •To respond to human need by loving service, •To seek to transform unjust structures of society, •To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation ad sustain and renew the life of the earth.
The Chancel windows at Prince of Peace Dallas are
in jeopardy of breaking and church members and the community have been asked
to help.
"The piles of flowers that you see on the site of road accidents are the most potent symbols of a society haunted by religion and not clear on what to do about it." [Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, at an event titled "Faith in the Public Square." Quoted by Ekklesia, a British think tank. Hat tip to Religion News Service and Neva Rae Fox.]
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Pray for our young men and women who have died this week in Iraq and Afghanistan.
President Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame this spring is
causing a number of Roman Catholic leaders to boycott the ceremony,
including the Bishop of the local diocese. The problem is centered in
the President's support for keeping abortion legally available in the
United States. The Jesuits at Notre Dame, among others, are
coming out in support. National Catholic Reporter publisher and editor-in-chief Joe Feuerherd describes Patrick Reilly, whose Cardinal Newman
Society incites a lot of commencement outrage, a self-appointed
ayatollah and overseer of false orthodoxy. Feueherd says that as Cardinal Newman rolls over in his recently relocated grave,
Reilly uses the cardinal's good name to promote the idea of university
as Catholic madrassa. [Read more in Nick Knisely's report on Episcopal Cafe]
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