At the end of 2009, I will complete my nine years of service as the Presiding Bishop's Deputy for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations. I'm taking early retirement and will do two years as interim Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Davenport, Iowa where my wife, Susanne, and I now presently reside. And I'm really looking forward to winding up my active ministry back in the parish!
Thoughts from Bishop Epting
Thoughts from Tom Ferguson
Well, it's also Advent, which means one thing - yes, the continual showing of various permutations of the classic Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, from the new Jim Carrey version (which is surprisingly good) to the classic 1951 with Alastair Sim (my favorite). Central to Dickens' story is balancing one's past, present, and future.
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WCC News
- Climate change displacement, indigenous peoples and Colombia on churches' UN advocacy agenda
Church representatives from around the world will gather in New York City 15-20 November to press three issues within the agenda of the United Nations: peoples being displaced by climate change, indigenous people's rights and Colombia's protracted internal conflict.
EIR Updates
- Deputy for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations comments on Vatican's Apostolic Constitution
Bishop Christopher Epting, the Episcopal Church's deputy to the Presiding Bishop for ecumenical and interreligious relations, issued a statement Nov. 16 on the Vatican's Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus.
News in the Field
- In the Wake of Vatican Initiative ARC-USA Meets
The sixty-sixth meeting of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Theological Consultation in the United States (ARC-USA) took place at the Washington Retreat House in Washington, DC, on October 26 and 27.
- Anglican Society of Catholic Priests in North America responds to the Vatican Initiative
In light of the announcement by the Vatican of the creation of new ecclesiastical structures to make room for disaffected catholic-minded Anglicans to move over to the Roman Catholic Church, it seems important for catholic-minded Anglicans who have long been an integral part of the Anglican Communion and intend to remain so to reassert their understanding of catholicity and tradition within Anglicanism.
- Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy find common ground in call for civility
It's gotten ugly out there in the public square -- on television, at public meetings, on the Internet. Whether it's health care reform specifically or politics generally, people seem to demonize each other, shout each other down and gleefully circulate vicious e-mail messages distorting the other side.
NCC News
- Kinnamon and McCullough Call for Recommitment to Unity of Church
The annual General Assembly of the National Council of Churches USA and Church World Service commenced Tuesday amid sober assessments of national and world conditions and calls for renewal of the churches' historic commitment to unity.