May 1, 2006 Left behind by AIDS

Charity and her two-year-old daughter Cynthia live in Kenya’s Mount Kenya Region. Charity, 21, has lost both of her parents to AIDS and has responsibility for her six younger siblings. She was one of many Kenyans who met with a visiting group of 11 representatives from the diocese of Ontario who travelled last March to Mt. Kenya central and Mt. Kenya east, along with three staff from the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund

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May 1, 2006 Three gays on California ballot

Three of the seven candidates for bishop of the Episcopal diocese of California are openly gay, a development that could again focus attention on gay clergy at the church’s upcoming General Convention in June.

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May 1, 2006 Churches seek end to stigma of HIV/AIDS

Canon Gideon Byamu-gisha, the Ugandan Anglican priest who became the first known African church leader to declare he was HIV-positive, says the world could be free of AIDS by 2025 if it confronts hurdles like stigma and inaction in dealing with the pandemic.

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May 1, 2006 Meeting urges more women leaders

Why are there not more women in leadership roles around the world, both within church structures and secular governments? That was one of the issues considered at the 50th United Nations Conference on the Status of Women,...

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May 1, 2006 Canadians witness 'hope and joy' on visit with HIV/AIDS sufferers

A Canadian-Anglican delegation in mid-March visited Kenya to look at the HIV/AIDS situation there and came home enthused by the “hope” and “great faith” they saw in people living with the disease as well as the staff of the...

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May 1, 2006 Job sharing bishops

The Bavarian Lutheran church has for the first time appointed a married couple to share the position of regional bishop.

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May 1, 2006 Solar-powered church

A church in England plans to become one of the first medieval churches in the country to install solar panels and a rainwater harvesting system as part of an environmental plan.

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May 1, 2006 Books to bring readers down to earth

The garden as spiritual autobiography is a common theme explored by Donna Sinclair’s The Spirituality of Gardening and Gunilla Norris’ A Mystic Garden, Working with Soil, Attending to Soul. The Spirituality of Gardening...

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May 1, 2006 Cash delivers requiem for her father

She has never released a clunker of an album since she burst on the scene with Seven Year Ache in 1981. Like many artists, though, Rosanne Cash’s most significant work has been spurred by personal pain and spiritual...

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May 1, 2006 Bed books

The New Testament is one of the first 24 Bed Books available from a company based in California. The creator developed the sideways text layout when he tried reading in a sleeping module in his RV, which had a 24 inch ceiling. Other books in the series include Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights.

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