Also: Honoring Florence Li Tim-Oi, Bring Back the Greeks
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Bishop Teodoro Mendes Tavares of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil, and Archbishop Marinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto approach Pope Francis for their joint blessing. | Neil Turner for IARCCUM
** Catholic & Anglican Bishops United by Mission
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By Douglas LeBlanc
The Pope and Archbishop Welby blessed Catholic and Anglican bishops from around the world who gathered in Rome and Canterbury for common prayer and encouragement; two female bishops from Latin America caused a bit of a stir. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Council Mulls Selection of New GC Officer
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By Kirk Petersen
Executive Council highlights: laying the groundwork for selecting General Convention Executive Officer Michael Barlowe's successor; moving the Church Archives to Wisconsin; approving a budget with no reduction in diocesan assessments. Read on here ([link removed]) and here ([link removed]) .
** Anglicans Celebrate Florence Li Tim-Oi
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By Weston Curnow
Services in San Francisco and London honored the 80th anniversary of the ordination of Anglicanism’s first female priest, who served for years in a Chinese labor camp. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Mere Anglicanism Addresses ‘Gospel Hospitality’
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By Sue Careless and Douglas LeBlanc
The annual Charleston gathering focused on responding to ‘the new morality.’ Several speakers focused on personal encounters that led them to faith, while conservative firebrand Calvin Robinson’s attack on women’s orders found him disinvited from the final panel. Read on here ([link removed]) and here ([link removed]) .
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** Bring Back the Greeks
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By Leander Harding
A 10-point strategy for mission to secular modernity: learn to ask and answer deep philosophical questions, save beautiful churches, pray the Great Thanksgiving, cultivate Marian spirituality, and more. Read on ([link removed]) .
** Lord is an Indispensable Word
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By Adam Linton
“To call Jesus Lord doesn’t come naturally to any of us. That we should be able to call him Lord, with all that this is meant to mean, is itself God’s gift: a gracious, providential, and mysterious gift; given to us through the power of the Spirit.” Read on ([link removed]) .
** Consecrated Reading
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By Dane Neufeld
Consecrating physical things relies on “a determination that certain purposes will be fulfilled, purposes that are easily lost, confused, or ignored in the Christian life.” It makes Bible reading on Smartphone at least a little suspect. Read on ([link removed]) .
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