[Office of Public Affairs] The Episcopal Church logos and shields featuring the new type treatments in both English and Spanish are available at no cost for downloading here. The new graphic guidelines outlining important details for the use of the Episcopal Church shield and logos, including fonts, color palette, use of the shield, and important [...]

[Episcopal News Service] There is an undeclared war on women in this country and around the world. The recent decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to essentially end its decades-long partnership with Planned Parenthood brought this struggle, which was played out in the Internet at head-snapping speed, to a different new battleground. Komen’s founder [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Fifty years ago—1962—long before I knew where Nitro, West Virginia, was located, I was a student at Virginia Theological Seminary. Having processed out of the Marine Corp, I had traded my copy of The Uniform Code of Military Justice for a Bible. There would be no more military exercises for war. I [...]

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has accepted the invitations of Primates of Anglican Communion provinces in Asia to visit, address diocesan gatherings, celebrate Eucharist and preach during February and early March. “I look forward to renewing friendships and visiting new areas in Asia, and I am grateful [...]

[Anglican Communion News Service] 4th–8th February 2012 Bujumbura, Burundi “Harnessing our unity to unlock our potential and secure our future” Hosted by the Province of the Anglican Church of Burundi, the 11th CAPA Council meeting is bringing together Primates or their representatives, clergy and lay people from the 12 Anglican Provinces of Africa along with [...]

[Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] Al tiempo que el Comité Permanente Conjunto sobre Programa, Presupuesto y Finanzas (PB&F por su sigla en inglés) se reunía aquí para debatir el anteproyecto del presupuesto 2013-2015, algunos de sus miembros expresaron que se enfrentaban al manejo de muchos asuntos en conflicto. El comité del presupuesto de [...]

Cathedral Choral Society conductor J. Reilly Lewis leads a sing-along of the Mozart Requiem.

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From an October 2011 article at Human Life International World Watch, a “pro-life and pro-family” organization dedicated to monitoring “anti-life forces operat[ing] under the radar implementing their destructive agenda”:

…You would think, in an empty nation like Kazakhstan, there would be groups encouraging peo­ple to have more children, but ex­actly the opposite is the case. Fam­ily Health International and USAID distribute contraceptives by the ton, the Population Council writes long reports supporting the continued availability of abortion for any rea­son or no reason at all, and, of course, the lethal alphabet soup of the United Nations coordinates ev­erything — UNAIDS, CEDAW, UNDESA, UNDP, UNIFEM, and the omnipresent UNFPA.

Nobody could explain why all of these population control groups are necessary in a nation that has an average of only 15 people per square mile.

The answer lies in the nation’s natural resources. Kazakhstan is rich in manganese, chromium, cop­per, cobalt, gold, uranium, coal, nat­ural gas, and, of course, oil. The core principle of National Securi­ty Study Memorandum 200 of 1974 is certainly operative here: “The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. . . . Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth­rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource sup­plies and to the economic interests of the United States.”

In other words, a large popula­tion is a strong population, and the people of such a nation will want to use their own natural resources; so North America, Europe, Austra­lia, and Japan do all they can to hold down the population of Ka­zakhstan so we can get our hands on its minerals and other treasures.

From Mark Oppenheimer’s article at the New York Times today on the case, taken up by the Christian legal organization Alliance Defense Fund, of a counselor who refused to treat a patient seeking help with a same-sex relationship (Tedesco is the counselor’s lawyer):

“Does it require a Jewish counselor to affirm the religious beliefs of a Muslim client?” Mr. Tedesco asked. He noted that the American Counseling Association allows its members to choose not to work with terminally ill patients considering end-of-life options. That proves, he said, that counselors are sometimes allowed to refuse to treat clients because of a fraught ethical question — so why not when the question is sexuality, and the counselor is Christian?

[Diocese of Southern Ohio] Erin Koepke found that the bond of food, of breaking bread together, transcends geography, age, race and culture. A longtime camp counselor in the Diocese of Southern Ohio and member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Dayton, Koepke joined micro-farmers from South Africa and two colleagues to create a cookbook using locally [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Jonathan Myrick Daniels was a 26-year-old seminarian when he heard the televised appeal of Martin Luther King Jr. for students and clergy to join the struggle for civil rights. Inspired by the words of the Magnificat about the God who “hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the [...]

[Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta] Victor Catanzaro can’t see, and he can’t walk. And he doesn’t have a lot of strength in his upper body. But he can serve as an acolyte in an Episcopal church. How can this be? Well, it takes a parish. About three years ago, Betsy Jones, who serves as acolyte master [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Six priests have been nominated to stand for election to become bishop suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. They are: The Rev. Randy Alexander, 45, rector, Christ Church, Pelham (Diocese of New York); The Rev. Canon Susan Goff, 58, canon to the ordinary, Diocese of Virginia; The Very Rev. David May, [...]

[Ecumenical News International] A diocese of the Church of South India (CSI) is preparing an appeal against a court order that has virtually stripped it of more than half its churches and institutions, inherited from the Basel Mission church. “We are preparing a strong appeal to get this order quashed. We are hopeful that our [...]

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"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because [God] has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. [God] has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor." - Luke 4:18-19

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God of all creation, awake us to the beauty around us, that we may see glimpses of you both in nature and in our neighbor. Amen

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[Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion] Today, with 6,000 co-ed students in Chennai, India, Madras Christian College (MCC) is the largest of the 50 Indian members of Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion (CUAC). During a Service of Thanksgiving to launch MCC’s 175th anniversary, ‘Celebrating History and Serving Humanity’, Dr Jeremy Law, Dean [...]

[American Cancer Society] Residents of Austin have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a historic study that has the potential to change the face of cancer for future generations. Men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed to participate in the American Cancer Society’s [...]