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April 09 2007 By virtueonline LONDON: It's time for St Rowan to swap jobs - by Tim Hames

"Quite religious" is an awkward place to be stranded between the more robust stations of militant secularism and theological fanaticism. "Quite religious" is also an accurate description of our contemporary Easter. On Friday, Gerard Baker wrote in these pages that in Japan, where there are not many Christians and an element of confusion is perhaps understandable, it is possible to purchase a Father Christmas nailed to a Cross. Coming soon, a chocolate egg nestling in a Nativity manger?

April 08 2007 By virtueonline Face to faith - by Tom Wright

"Wait without hope," wrote TS Eliot, "for hope would be hope for the wrong thing." If you frame Easter in the terms of the perceived problem, you belittle it. Whether you think in terms of pie in the sky (at best a thoroughly subChristian concept) or a better society, all you get is a happy ending after a sad or sinful story.

April 06 2007 By virtueonline Oh, Sir Elton John! - Ian Hunter

Sir Elton's 60th birthday bash was celebrated last Saturday at New York's Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine, with 400 revelers in attendance. Lots of big name celebs were there - Jon Bon Jovi, Richard Gere, Whoopi Goldberg, Rod Stewart, and Barbara Walters - all noticeably greying a bit.

April 04 2007 By virtueonline THE MONEY TREE - C.J. Conner

The financial outlook of the ELCA is not much better. They learned from ECUSA’s mistake just a few weeks earlier, though. The one thing that large corporations know how to do is make the books look good. Finances are mostly what you present for public consumption. Enron knew how to do this well. You shift some things around, and voila! your books are looking pretty good.

April 04 2007 By virtueonline Elton John's 60th Birthday Revenge

Perhaps you did not ask yourself why this man would want his "private party" in a cathedral? This is the man who said in an interview focusing on his sexuality and gay musicians that organized religion "turns people into hateful lemmings." He also said that if it were left up to him he would ban religion altogether. So what was going on here?

April 03 2007 By virtueonline Fr. Donald Armstrong Writes Letter to Grace Church and St. Stephen's Parish

It is clear, as I work through what are now formal accusations against Me and about which you have been informed in a letter from the diocese, That there is nothing about these allegations that cannot be reasonably understood when all, not just some, of the facts are available. It is my own and the vestry's intention to share with the congregation all the facts, and we are confident that the operation of our church and my participation in parish decisions will be fully exonerated.

April 03 2007 By virtueonline COLORADO: Concerned Clergy and Laity Demand Full Accounting in Diocesan Battle

The Bishop and Standing Committee have been accused of initiating an inquiry into the stewardship and administration of Grace and St. Stephen's with the intention of crippling, defaming, silencing or otherwise taking over an orthodox priest and parish.

They have been accused of animus and bias against Fr. Armstrong.

We want you and the faithful around the world to know that two CLC members serve on the Standing Committee.

April 01 2007 By virtueonline THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS ANSWERS THE PRIMATES - by Ted Lewis

What the Primates asked

April 01 2007 By virtueonline DEATH BY INCLUSION: The Seduction of the Orthodox - Gary L'Hommedieu

I'm exercising considerable license in paraphrasing the priest's words. His comments are typical of many others I've heard in the past year. Conservative and moderate clergy are echoing these sentiments all around the church. Typical also is the theological truism that there are no "enemies" in the present warfare between Episcopalians, only the one Enemy of us all. Here the painful divisions end and love takes over.

March 31 2007 By virtueonline 200th Anniversary Sermon on the Abolition of the British Slave Trade - D. Gomez

The physical and psychological horrors of this, the greatest relocation, enforced and cruel, of human beings in the history of the world, are beyond imagination for us. 1807, for all its limitations, marked a decisive step in the redemption of human degradation. There has been a proper concern, however, during this anniversary, that it not become a self-congratulatory affair.

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