"Thanking God is going to feel so much better than throwing stones at people who are already stoned," he says.
But Bishop Dabney Smith, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida, which includes St. Petersburg, "was very disturbed by the video," spokesman Garland Pollard said.
"In this age of social media, we have two hats that we wear in the world, and we need to think of how we present ourselves. And the clergy is held to a higher standard."
Read more"IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that Defendants' (Bishop Iker) Second Motion for Partial Summary Judgment is GRANTED, except with respect to claims relating to All Saints Episcopal Church (Fort Worth).
"IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiffs' (TEC) Motion for Partial Summary Judgment is DENIED."
Read moreThe lawsuits initiated by ECUSA and its dioceses to date are first listed below. They far outnumber, as you can see, the second list of the eight cases begun by a diocese or parish against the Episcopal Church (or a diocese). The listing endeavors to be as complete as I can make it.
Read moreAllegations about a host of esteemed and now dead BBC broadcasters have been disclosed in a new book about the corporation during the 1970s and 1980s.
Senior male broadcasters and executives "abused their position" with women and "the great Huw Wheldon and the apparently saintly Malcolm Muggeridge both groped incontinently", the Guardian reported last week.
Read moreSewanee's Women's Center has publicized the big unveiling on social media with hashtags including #SolidGoldClit and #yeaSEWANEEScliterate, Campus Reform notes.
A Facebook page entitled Cliteracy Exhibit Reception suggests that Wallace believes Americans are confused about female sexuality.
"By occupying public space with information about women's bodies, CLITERACY destigmatizes the information itself, facilitating open dialogue," the Facebook page instructs.
Read moreOne Illinois circuit court judge has had enough. Three times last Friday (Feb. 20, he told The Episcopal Church to cease and desist in his court order seeking to bring The Episcopal Church under control. Adams County, Illinois Eighth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Mark Drummond emphatically told The Episcopal Church that the top-down bullying and intimidation of the Diocese of Quincy and its financial institution will stop ... immediately.
Read moreBut at the same time, the Lord is doing great things that we have, up until now, only read about in Acts and in books on revival. People regularly cry out in services, falling down on their knees weeping as the Holy Spirit touches their hearts. Demons too cry out, throwing their hosts to the ground, but they are dealt with swiftly in the Name of Jesus. The Anuak are using the Jesus Film in their revival meetings and evangelistic services to great effect.
Read moreThe caskets remained closed as mourners were not allowed to look at their bodies but pictures.
"Please, open the caskets. We want to see if they contain the bodies of our children," one of the mourners begged.
Another one interjected: "How do we know whether we are burying the right people."
Read moreThe motion had also argued that because the Diocese had argued legal positions in the All Saints case contrary to those now being presented, that Judicial Estoppel should apply. In response, Judge Goodstein sharply noted... "The court finds that the Judicial Estoppel argument is without merit....If the Defendants' argument in the instant action was correct, no party previously adjudicated to be wrong would be able to correct their conduct in compliance with a court's holding.
Read moreThe Diocese and Corporation countered that, under neutral principles of law as mandated for the trial court to follow, the Dennis Canon has been found by the Texas Supreme Court to have been revoked, leaving the property in trust for the parishes and missions in fellowship with the Diocese, and only those individual defendants before the court are the duly-elected officers of the Diocese and the Corporation.
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