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Investiture of 26th presiding bishop to be Web cast live, November 4
[ENS]
The Episcopal Church's Office of Communication, in collaboration
with the Washington National Cathedral, will Web cast the
investiture service of Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts
Schori. The service, scheduled for November 4, 2006, will be
carried live beginning at 11 a.m. (Eastern Time) and continuing
through the liturgy's conclusion, expected around 1:15 p.m.
The webcast will have a direct link on the
Episcopal Church home
page that will go live shortly before the service begins.
Our diocesan home page (www.edusc.org) will also offer a link.
Read the entire ENS story, including technical information for
optimal viewing,
here.
ELCA's Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson on the MDGs, “full
communion” partnership
Audio, video streams of Bishop Hanson's remarks available
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| The Millennium Development Goals displayed in the shape of a cross |
[ENS] In a recent interview Presiding Bishop
Mark S. Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
has spoken about the role of churches in holding governments
accountable for the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) and upholds the "full communion" relationship
between the ELCA and the Episcopal Church. The Millennium
Development Goals is an eight-pronged initiative whose aim is to cut extreme
global poverty in half by the year 2015.
Hanson also urges involvement in the ONE Campaign, the goal of
which is to direct an additional ONE percent of the U.S. federal
budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, food
and clean water to transform the futures and hopes of an entire
generation in the world's poorest countries.
Video and audio streams of Hanson's interview are available
here.
Hanson and Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold released a joint
pastoral letter September 14, calling on members of both
churches to "play a key role building [the] will and holding
governments accountable" for the achievement of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). Read their letter, entitled “That All
May Be One,”
here.
A reflection from Bishop Griswold on the MDGs is available
here.
To find out more about the MDGs and the ONE Campaign, including
General Convention resolutions and archived ENS stories, click
here.
Presiding Bishop reflects on September's Camp Allen, Kigali meetings
[Fom ENS stories] In September a group of 21 Episcopal
bishops calling themselves “Windsor compliant” met at Camp
Allen, Texas. Two Church of England bishops also attended the
meeting. Following the meeting the bishops issued a letter on
September 22 stating that the 75th General Convention "did not
adequately respond" to the Windsor Report and subsequent
statements, but pledging to "care for all God's children in our
dioceses" (ENS story, including the bishops’ statement,
here).
A meeting of Global South Primates, held September 19-22 in
Kigali, Rwanda, issued a communiqué criticizing the 75th General
Convention's response to the Windsor Report and announcing that
"some of us will not be able to recognize" the Episcopal
Church's next Presiding Bishop "as a Primate at the table with
us" at the next Anglican Primates' Meeting, set for February
2007 in Tanzania. The communiqué also expressed regret that
General Convention "gave no clear embrace of the minimal
recommendations of the Windsor Report.” (ENS story, including a
link to the text of the communiqué,
here.)
On September 28 Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold issued a letter reflecting on the contents of these two statements. Read the full text here.