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February 06 2015 By dvirtue MIAMI, FL: Dean of Denver Cathedral elected Southeast Florida Bishop Coadjutor

The new bishop-elect was born in 1959 Washington, DC, but spent most of his childhood overseas where he was educated in the West Indies and the United Kingdom. As a result of his foreign travels and classical Anglican education, he speaks Spanish, French, Italian, modern Greek, Arabic, German, and Russian. He also reads Latin, classical Greek, and Hebrew.

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January 30 2015 By dvirtue CHARLESTON, SC: Mere Anglican Conference Draws World Class Christian Thinkers

At the conclusion the audience rose as one to cheer the bishop's opening remarks which, he said, aimed at equipping Anglicans of all walks for the challenges of leadership, and "to take theology home with them."

The pace with which he delivered his remarks outpaced even this reporter's ability to keep up with him. I will summarize what he said. (NOTE: For some of this I am indebted to Mr. Allan Haley whose copious note taking outdid mine).

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January 29 2015 By dvirtue Pakistani-born Church of England Bishop Decries FOX News over "No Go Zones"

"Steve Emerson is wrong about whole cities being 'no go' areas. However, the policy of multiculturalists has encouraged isolated segregated communities to emerge and radical Islamists have taken advantage of that fact.

"This has certainly crested in areas within cities and other settlements to where radical Islamists tell people not to enter if they are dressed in a particular way or who are gay etc. These cities include London, Birmingham, and Bradford."

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January 28 2015 By dvirtue I Remember Auschwitz

Almost 50 years to the day in 1965, I, along the a group of young Polish Christians, walked into the worst death camp ever devised by modern man, thus opening my eyes forever to the reality and horror of evil, perpetrated by ostensibly civilized men and women who listened to Wagner, Bach and Beethoven at night with their families while exterminating millions of Jews, whom they regarded as sub-human, by day.

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January 26 2015 By dvirtue GEORGIA: Bishop Blasts Episcopal Church's Plan to Reimagine Church Structures

"The one elephant in the room we do not seem to be addressing clearly is our financial resources. Where will they come from? How will they be strategically deployed? And, with the principal of subsidiarity in mind, at what level of the Church are they best gathered and deployed?" complained the bishop who rode into the diocese in 2010 on a horse saying he had "a different way of being Christian", blaming unnamed fundamentalists for the division in the church.

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January 22 2015 By dvirtue GAFCON Primates Write Blistering Letter to Burundi Anglican Archbishop accusing him of Faith Betrayal

The text of the Nairobi Consultation letter follows. The New York Communique can be found at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/notice/episcopal-church-african-primates-bishops-issue-communique-transformation-through-friendship

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The Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi
Archbishop of Burundi
4th December 2014

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January 19 2015 By dvirtue Church of England Must Rethink its Approach to Numeric Decline or Face Death

The Church of England could also face a dramatic shortage of priests within a decade as almost half of the current clergy retire, according to Archbishops Welby and Dr. John Sentamu of York.

Dwindling numbers in the pews will inevitably plunge the Church into a financial crisis as it grapples with the "burden" of maintaining thousands of historic buildings, they insisted.

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January 19 2015 By dvirtue Citing Court Concerns, Episcopal Bishop will Do All Her Drinking at Home with Boyfriend

Calling the move "a temporary security measure to avoid irate cyclists who feel she should stay in the slammer for killing one of their own," the Maryland Suffragan Bishop said that her decision to do all of her drinking at home "should in no way be seen as a negative comment on Episcopalians who drink or take the fifth. They are wunnerful people."

"To all faithful Episcopalians who can quaff a fifth, I'll be back," she said, choking up.

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January 16 2015 By dvirtue That Incredibly Contracting Episcopal Church

The Episcopal Church has been on a drunken bender for decades, spending money on failed programs like the 20/20 vision to double the church, millions into the then Episcopal Diocese of Mexico only to see its leaders run off with the money, and endless political and social resolutions that have done nothing to build up the church.

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January 15 2015 By dvirtue Maryland Episcopal Bishop Absolves Himself in Fellow Bishop’s Hit-n-Run Death of Cyclist

With Bishop Heather Cook in a Baltimore jail cell on charges of manslaughter, drunk driving, and leaving the scene of an accident, the man who presided during her hiring says he didn’t realize how burdened he was by the incident until “a bishop colleague” spoke with him.

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