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• in Lifestyle
  Presbyterian Church Passes Vote to Allow Openly Gay Clergy
  On Tuesday, the Presbyterian Church approved the ordination of openly gay men and women for the clergy.
  by efrank / on May 12, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “clergy”

 

• Buh-BYE Boner Jesus!

  
  The Worthy Adversary — Authority: 131
    After more than 30 years of upsetting, insulting and disgusting Catholics, passers-by and anyone with eyes, Boner Jesus—a mural on the wall of St. Joseph’s Church in Santa Ana—has finally been covered up. Put this one in the “tentative win” column for new Orange Bishop Kevin Vann.   Let’s just hope ...
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• Surprised by sin – African clerical celibacy

  
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  Bishop: “I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr Jones” Curate: “Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!” “True Humility” by George du Maurier, in Punch, 1895. There is much to praise in the Los Angeles Times article “Uganda priest ostracized for publicizing sexual abuse”. The May ...
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• Burned out or Soul-Starved?

  
  It Takes A Church... — Authority: 116
  A recent blog post  by Philip Wagner on  "The Secret Pain of Pastors"  has created some good--and really necessary--conversation about the challenge of pastoral leadership today.  Ill add my two cents with a few re-posts  of blogs I wrote after the NY Times ran a similar article in 2010. These posts were written ...
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• Cultivating a culture of call

  
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  The following post comes from Bill Wilson, president of the Center for Congregational Health . Nearly all observers of the 21 st century church in America agree that the next generation of leadership is a cause for concern. Many write, blog, tweet and generally lament the state of leadership cultivation and ...
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• California Child Victims’ Act Passes Judiciary

  
  The Worthy Adversary — Authority: 131
  From today’s OC Register:   Sexual abuse victims seek more time to sue BY SCOTT M. REID / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Charmaine Carnes still remembers the sick feeling she had the first time her gymnastics coach sexually molested her. “I was 8 or 9 years old the first time I felt dread. My coach, Doug Boger, was ...
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• Worn Out from Wearing the Collar

  
  It Takes A Church... — Authority: 116
  A recent blog post  by Philip Wagner on  "The Secret Pain of Pastors"  has created some good--and really necessary--conversation about the challenge of pastoral leadership today.  Ill add my two cents with a few re-posts  of blogs I wrote after the NY Times ran a similar article in 2010. These posts were written ...
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• Here’s A Webinar On The Clergy Housing Exclusion

  
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  This is put on by ECFA : Clergy Housing Exclusion & Love Offerings Webinar Thursday, May 9, 2013 60-minute session starting at 1:00 PM Eastern, including Q&A with the presenters. The first 50 people to register for this webinar using promo code ClerLov will receive a $10 discount. Join us for the ...
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• Child Protection Right Under Abuser’s Noses

  
  Googling God... — Authority: 126
  My erstwhile assistant, Christine Marino found this about an ad that displays two images, one for adults and another for children. Amazing. Let’s pray today for all victims of abuse, so we might better offer protection for them and for forgiveness and healing so that all may live in peace. Amen.
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• Clergy Burnout: What’s really causing it?

  
  It Takes A Church... — Authority: 116
  A recent blog post  by Philip Wagner on  "The Secret Pain of Pastors"  has created some good--and really necessary--conversation about the challenge of pastoral leadership today.  Ill add my two cents with a few re-posts  of blogs I wrote after the NY Times ran a similar article in 2010. These posts were written ...
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• Biden Begs For Gun Control Help From Clergy

  
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  Instead of begging clergy to help him strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights , perhaps Vice President Joe Biden should be asking them to save his soul. But hey, nobody listens to me. Vice President Joe Biden wants pastors, rabbis and nuns to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing ...
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• Clergy Burnout: And Why I am Taking on MORE work.

  
  It Takes A Church... — Authority: 116
  A recent blog post  by Philip Wagner on "The Secret Pain of Pastors"  has created some good--and really necessary--conversation about the challenge of pastoral leadership today.  Ill add my two cents with a few re-posts  of blogs I wrote after the NY Times ran a similar article in 2010. These posts were written ...
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• What Kind of Celibacy?

  
  An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy — Authority: 484
  With the news this morning that Jeffrey John has apparently been short-listed for Durham , I thought it would be worth just exploring again what the House of Bishops intended when they issued their Pastoral Statement on Civil Partnerships and what we can learn from Jesus’ words on the matter. The relevant section ...
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• Vatican Orders Cardinal Into Exile Over Gay Sex

  
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  Protecting sexual predators as a bishop or cardinal gets you a plum position in Rome if things get to hot with the law - remember Cardinal Law? - but admit to gay sexual conduct and you find yourself banished sent into exile.  Thats the message the Vatican is sending with its order to Scotlands Cardinal Keith OBrien ...
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• I Believe You: The Silence and the Shame of Sexual Violence in Church

  
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  Several years ago, Amee Paparella was an eager student at a state university in Ohio. A conservative Christian, she quickly signed up to join the campus ministry. What she found in the group surprised her. “It was so misogynistic,” Paparella recalled. “My leaders perpetuated this hyper-masculinized idea of God ...
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• Bishop Vann puts Marywood up for sale: Secrecy contract included!

  
  The Worthy Adversary — Authority: 131
  It’s not surprising that new Orange County Bishop Kevin Vann has put the Marywood Center up for sale. The 15-acre site (sitting on prime property in the swanky hills above the City of Orange) is redundant now that the ink is dry on the diocese’s purchase of the Crystal Cathedral (now Christ Cathedral) in Garden ...
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• Bulletin Board v190

  
  Toy Soldiers — Authority: 479
  Boy reveals parental abuse via Facebook — “Hi, my name is S. and I am 14. Since I was 8, my parents beat me regularly. Whenever there was a family argument that I was not connected to and I made eye-contact with my father, he would get angry and punch me hard, sometimes with a belt.” This post, published Friday ...
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• Zero Tolerance is for the little people

  
  The Worthy Adversary — Authority: 131
  It’s not like he stole money or anything … because then he would have gone to jail AND been excommunicated. Eleven years after the U.S. Bishops’ Conference promised to “Mak[e] prompt and effective response to allegations; Cooperat[e] with civil authorities; and Disciplin[e] offenders,” we are offered this ...
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• Don’t Call Me “Pastor”

  
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  Seth Merrin said that having no titles is symbolic, but it really works. (Earl Wilson/The New York Times) When I talk to journalists, I regularly need to ask them not to refer to me as “Pastor Tony Jones,” or “Tony Jones is a Christian pastor…” That’s because I am not, currently, a pastor. Call me a ...
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• Brazilian Priest Excommunicated for Being Too Liberal

  
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  Not for being liberal-- just too liberal. In one of the recent videos he posted on YouTube.com and his own Website, the priest said a married person who chose to have an affair, heterosexual or otherwise, would not be unfaithful as long as that persons spouse allowed it. "If someone is in an extramarital ...
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• Don’t Be Invisible

  
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  This is a column that I think was written from a sad place , and it made me sad. Pastor Jan Edmiston of the great blog A Church for Staving Artists writes about being middle-aged, wearing flats all the time, being hard-of-hearing and becoming increasingly unemployable. You should read the comments, too. The only ...
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