Episcopal Life Online Newslink April 10, 2007
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - Executive Council group begins communiqué work * DIOCESAN DIGEST - CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: Presiding Bishop pays Maundy Thursday visit * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Church of England, Lambeth Palace archives available online * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Human failure is overcome by God's love, Canterbury says in Easter Day sermon * OPINION - An Uneasy Fit; Covenants and Anglicans have never gone together * ARTS - Artist's stained glass makes church music building a 'visual ministry of praise'
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TOP STORIES
Executive Council group begins communiqué work Members will draft response for Council's June consideration
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] An Executive Council work group, appointed by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson, has begun considering the role, responsibilities and potential response of the Executive Council to the issues raised by the recent communiqué from the Primates of the Anglican Communion.
The Executive Council called for the work group via Resolution EC008, passed at its March 2-4 meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_84765_ENG_HTM.htm
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: Presiding Bishop pays Maundy Thursday visit http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_84762_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
ENGLAND: Church of England, Lambeth Palace archives available online http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_84741_ENG_HTM.htm
ENGLAND: Human failure is overcome by God's love, Canterbury says in Easter Day sermon http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_84742_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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OPINION
An Uneasy Fit
Covenants and Anglicans have never gone together
By Frederick Quinn
[Episcopal Life] "Covenant" is a word that recently has entered the vocabulary of Anglicans. Covenants enjoyed a brief heyday during the Continental Reformation, but never appealed to Anglicans. There is little reason why they should now.
The problem is the difficulty of reducing unresolved issues like the role of Scripture, the relationship of autonomous provinces and the place of gender and sexuality to brief statements of black-letter law. To cut off the healthy evolution of discussion with restrictive covenants now is to risk producing a document the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Anthony Apiah described as having "the quality of those horoscopes that seem wonderfully precise while being vague enough to suit all comers."
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_84738_ENG_HTM.htm
More Opinion: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/80050_ENG_HTM.htm
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ARTS
A window serenade
Artist's stained glass makes church music building a 'visual ministry of praise'
By Jerry Hames
[Episcopal Life] A Canadian stained-glass artist's work in a new music building on the campus of a Scottsdale, Arizona, Episcopal church received in November 2006 a Stained Glass Award from Ministry and Liturgy magazine.
The 36 clerestory windows, each five feet wide and four feet high, encircle the recently opened Gwen Harris Music Building at the St. Barnabas-on-the-Desert campus. They were designed by artist Sarah Hall of Toronto and created at the Glasmalerei Peters studio in Germany, where Hall worked alongside six highly trained craftspeople.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_84757_ENG_HTM.htm
More Arts: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_ENG_HTM.htm