After a prayer by Rick Matters, we began reports from the field.

VMFW - Bishop Iker has been fairly quiet, but has gotten very vocal about women's ordination. He has sent a formal request 10 Panel of Reference to shelter them from women's ordination. He is claiming that the church is forcing him to accept women's ordination.

Now all that is changing. "Today the integration of spirituality and medicine is gaining acceptance and recognition in many academic and clinical institutions," say the authors.

"Although modern psychology and psychiatry focus primarily on the healing forces within their patients, the Spiritual Integrated Approach combines the healing forces of the human body, mind and spirit with the power and love of God," says Torosian, an Armenian Orthodox believer and Biddle a Roman Catholic.

Those who did not sign it include the Primate of the Southern Cone, the Most Rev. Gregory Venables and the bishops of Bolivia, Chile, Nthn. Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

"We have had nothing whatsoever to do with the organization of this although they might make it look as if we do," Venables wrote VirtueOnline.

In his sermon, Griswold cited Christ's analogy of the kingdom of heaven being like a wedding banquet, a feast reserved not for the chosen but for all people. "And so the door to the banquet hall is flung wide and all sorts of riffraff, troublesome to us but close to the heart of God, are ushered in and given a place at the table," Griswold said.