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In monastery's ashes, a 'cleansing by fire'
Gay Religion less than a day ago
LOS ANGELES: On Tuesday, the monks met with their insurance agent.
Like thousands of other residents of Southern California, the seven Benedictine Anglican monks who lived at Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House, on a breathtaking ridge 1,250 feet, or 380 meters, above the Pacific in Montecito, were coming to terms with what they had lost in the fires that have swept across Southern California since Thursday.
Views on Prop 8
Gay Religion less than a day ago
After the passage of California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative in California that stripped LGBT people of their constitutional right to marry, many clergy and people of faith around the country have been offering solace and encouragement to their lesbian, gay and bisexual congregants and neighbors.
Remember: Faith Communities Can Save Transgender Lives
Gay Religion 2 days ago
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20, 2008) is set aside toremember those lost to anti-transgender violence in the last year.
S.C. priest: No communion if you voted Obama
Gay Religion Nov 14 08
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman, a Roman Catholic priest in South Carolina, doesn't want his parishioners taking communion if they voted for Barack Obama, at least not until after they do penance for it.
Catholics, Mormons allied to pass Prop. 8
Gay Religion Nov 10 08
Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons.
Quincy members vote to leave Episcopal Church, align with Southern Cone
Gay Religion Nov 07 08 [Episcopal News Service, Quincy, Illinois] A majority of delegates to the 131st annual synod of the Diocese of Quincy voted on November 7 to leave the Episcopal Church and realign the diocese under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, which covers the southern portion of South America.
Prop 8 & The Roman Catholic Church: One VIew
Gay Religion Oct 31 08* Tags = gay religion gay Christian gay jew gay mengay men
Some Mormons upset at church's Proposition 8 campaign
Gay Religion Oct 27 08
Some Mormons upset at church's Proposition 8 campaign The LDS Church is campaigning on behalf of California's Proposition 8, which would restrict marriage rights.
Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida's bishop opposes Amendment 2!
Gay Religion Oct 27 08
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
After prayerful consideration, I have decided that it is my duty as aChristian, and as your bishop, to urge the defeat of the proposed Amendment2 to our Florida Constitution, which would define marriage as only between a man and a woman.
Jeffrey Altman will be ordained an 'Anglican' - but not Episcopal - priest today
Gay Religion Oct 27 08
Jeffrey Altman will be ordained an Anglican priest today in a ceremony that reflects Central New York's role in the nationwide growth of a separate Anglican church in the United States.
Anglican bishop seeks OK to bless same-sex marriages in Ottawa
Gay Religion Oct 27 08
An Anglican church in Ottawa may soon be the second in Canada to bless same-sex marriages.
Faith groups gather to oppose Prop 8
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
Religious leaders from around Davis came together Thursday at the Davis United Methodist Church to speak in opposition to Prop 8.
Former Pittsburgh bishop warns Church of England traditionalists ...
Gay Religion Oct 26 08 Former Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan, who was deposed from the episcopate last month, has warned traditionalists in the Church of England that, in his view, what happened to him could happen to them.
California Clerics Ousted for Leaving Episcopal Church
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
An Episcopal Church committee voted Friday (Oct. 17) to oust more than 50 California clerics who left the denomination last year to join a more conservative province in the Anglican Communion.
Church of England priest who carried out 'gay wedding' escapes censure
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
The Rev Martin Dudley caused outrage when he held a marriage ceremony complete with traditional vows and the exchange of rings for two homosexual priests.
Savannah's Christ Church Abandodns Anglican Communion, buildings sits on aptly named Bull Street
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
Leaving the Episcopal Church was about more than just leaving a denomination, Gene Prevatt says.
The truth: "We're . . . modern-day lepers"
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
Elizabeth Bennett sits in her Denver church contemplating the elephant in the sanctuary that few polite Episcopalians want to mention.
Prop 8: California gay marriage fight divides LDS faithful
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
The thought of going to church in her southern California LDS ward makes Carol Oldham cry.
Clergy on both sides of Proposition 8 speak out
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
With the Nov. 4 election fast approaching, rabbis, priests and ministers across California are ratcheting up their public appeals over Proposition 8 -- using their religious platforms to alternately highlight the perils of passing or rejecting the same-sex marriage amendment.
Local man says Anglican Church 'hypocritical'
Gay Religion Oct 26 08
George is gay. That could lead to the “abomination” of a man lying with a man, as stated in the Old Testament.
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