November 1, 2007 Schism plans develop after U.S. meeting

The split between liberal and conservative Anglicans grew wider in September as bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church reaffirmed their denomination’s more-inclusive stance on homosexuality and a breakaway group of bishops moved to form a “new ecclesiastical structure” in North America.

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November 1, 2007 Wanted: spiritual leaders for U.S. military; signing bonuses available

One branch of the U.S. military has the advertising slogan, “The few. The proud. The Marines.”

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November 1, 2007 Helping out in a stricken city

On a hot fall day in September, Gordon Soderberg, 46, took a break from mowing – with a tractor – the weed-choked vacant lots in the Lower Ninth Ward where Hurricane Katrina’s flooding wiped out hundreds of houses.

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November 1, 2007 ‘Schismatic’ Zimbabwe bishop should resign, says colleague

Bishop Nolbert Kunonga of Harare in Zimbabwe should resign his post following his attempt to withdraw his diocese from the Anglican Communion’s Central Africa Province, said his counterpart in Botswana, Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba. The Botswana bishop cited Bishop Kunonga’s opposition to the granting of what he described as “Christian rights” to homosexuals.

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November 1, 2007 Australia’s Anglicans clear way for women bishops

Supporters of women’s ordination have cheered a decision by the highest court of the Anglican Church of Australia clearing the way for women to become bishops, but opponents criticized the measure as being potentially divisive.

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November 1, 2007 Foreign priests in U.K. undergo training in ‘Britishness’

A three-week course designed to introduce foreign priests to the British way of doing things in the Roman Catholic church has opened at Ushaw College outside Durham in Northumberland, England.

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November 1, 2007 Jazz ministry plays an upbeat note for New Orleans

On a recent steamy September evening, St. Anna’s Episcopal Church did what it has been doing every Wednesday night for nearly two years, since the great storm raked the city: it fed people and it opened its doors to jazz.

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November 1, 2007 Seeking joy in pictures

Recently, the Anglican Journal asked readers to submit their best photographs for Picture Your Faith, a new monthly feature on the Journal Web site, www.anglicanjournal.com. The goal of Picture Your Faith is to tell stories of...

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November 1, 2007 Hearing that still, small voice

The American clergyman James H. Aughey (1828-1911) said that, “conscience is the voice of God in the soul” of man. After all, it is the still, small voice of conscience that lets us discern right from wrong in our conduct, intentions, and character and prompts us to do what is right.

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November 1, 2007 Book chronicles Anglican identity

Like young people on a quest to “find themselves,” Anglicans have long been searching for those things that set them apart from other Christians. Three years ago a working group of the General Synod’s standing committee on faith,...

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