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Back in May White House Communications Director Mrs. Anita Dunn lauded Chinese Communist Dictator and mass murder Mao Zedong as one her philosophical heroes alongside Mother Teresa.   The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Theresa -- not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a

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His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI stunned the Christian world yesterday with thejoint  announcement from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments that he would soon be issuing an Apostolic Constitution outlining a new procedure, Personal Ordinariates, for  Anglicans would desire full visible communion with the Chair

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From the Phila. Inquirer... About 60 members and supporters of the community-action group ACORN gathered at a North Philadelphia church yesterday to sing the praises of the beleaguered organization. "There are two ACORNs out there," said Ian Phillips, ACORN's Pennsylvania legislative director and one of the organizers of the event. "We wanted to talk about the ACORN that people who live in the

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V. Gene Robinson was featured this year in the annual Tides Foundation Conference "Momentum" in San Francisco.  The conference, started in 2005, brings together a group of 300 dynamic participants comprised of forward-thinking activists, philanthropists and social entrepreneurs.    Robinson address was entitled "Finding the Power Within:On the roles of faith, hope, and love in social justice;

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Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi, The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, The Episcopal Network for Economic Justice, and the Union of Black Episcopalians have joined an effort of left-wing groups to have the US Congress pass the "Gulf Coast Civic Works Act". The bill, according to these endorsers, would "create a minimum of 100,000 prevailing wage jobs and training opportunities for

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TEC attached its signature as one of 521 organizations in a letter to President Obama calling for an immediate termination of "Delegation of Immigration Authority" or Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1996.  This section allows local law enforcement to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in enforcing federal immigration laws.  According to ICE "State and local

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Yesterday a blogger at Stand Firm pointed out a little known ideological connection between House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson and Saul Alinsky.  Alinsky you will recall is the man who gave the world Rules for Radicals and founded the Industrial Areas Foundation from whom Ms. Anderson received training as a community organizer.   While her connection with Alinsky is certainly interesting

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It has been just mildly fascinating  to consider how conservative Episcopalians seemingly are caught in the perfect storm facing 70 foot waves developed from  left-wing, liberal developments in both civil and ecclesiatical life.  That mild fascination grew intense this afternoon after learning through a blogger over at Stand Firm that Mrs. Bonnie Anderson, the President of GC's House of

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The Rev. Scott Benhase, Rector of St. Alban's Church, Washington, DC. was elected today as the next Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia. In a sermon preached on 16 Aug at St. Albans, Fr. Benhase says this...Our Church gathered in California at our General Convention last month discerned that all the Baptized, among whom are Gay & Lesbian Christians, should be able to discern with others if they are

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At the request of the Rev. Fr. Michael Nation, I am writing a few words to give an Orthodox response to the recent decision of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church to allow the ordination of openly practicing gays and lesbians and the decision of the House of Bishops to sanction the production of services for the blessing of same sex “marriages.” It is obvious to anyone who studies

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In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, John Spong retired bishop of Newark opined that the battle regarding human sexuality is over. He said...The battle over homosexuality in the Episcopal Church is over. The vote at the last General Convention was overwhelming. The sacred unions of gay and lesbian people are to be blessed and enfolded into liturgical patterns in the same way that the

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The General Convention met in the home of Mickey Mouse and some have come back trying to take the rest of us spinning on the Mad Hatter's Tea Ride. It strains credulity that there are Bishops and Deputies returning from GC 2009 acting as if or outright saying or naively hoping that nothing changed in Anaheim. Life for the Anglican Communion as we knew it changed here:That the 76th General

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One cannot but help but see the irony of the photograph on the cover the recent issue of Episcopal Life in light of the recent actions of GC 2009. In the photo we see the Presiding Bishop vested in mitre and chasuble flanked by her predecessors also in chasubles and presumably deacons in dalmatics; a stirring picture until one realizes what it is --- protestant sectarians dressed in catholic

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In a piece of English understatement, the Archbishop of Canterbury responded yesterday to the actions of the 2009 General Convention and charted what he saw as the way ahead. Williams addressed three points: 1) the moratoria on same-sex relationships and the ordination of active homosexuals to the episcopate 2) the relationship of decisions made by a local church to the the Church Catholic and 3

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