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Fort Hays State University’s LGBTQ+ inclusive Ash Wednesday event draws attention and backlash, highlighting the tension between religious observance and the push for inclusivity.
Headed into a critical vote, an Episcopal diocese in Central California is poised to split with the national denomination over what its bishop sees as the threat of moral decay in the church.
While some Episcopal churches had blessed same-sex unions, this move makes the full marriage rite available to same-sex couples throughout the denomination.
It's the first major denomination in the U.K. to offer church marriages to same-sex couples.
The Episcopal diocese of San Joaquin in California has sued a deposed bishop, demanding he vacate his offices and turn over financial accounts for leading a secession last year prompted by the church's ordination of women and gays. The diocese said in its lawsuit, filed Thursday in Fresno County superior court, that John-David Schofield breached his duties to the church. National church leaders removed Schofield as the head of the Fresno-based diocese after he led parishioners to align themselves with the conservative Province of the Southern Cone, an Argentina-based member of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Colorado's largest Episcopal congregation was left in turmoil after leaders voted to leave the denomination and the state's bishop responded by dismissing the parish's leadership.
Dallas bishop
James M. Stanton is among the leaders of seven Episcopal
dioceses who have rejected the authority of the
denomination's incoming national leader, Nevada bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori, as the debate over the
Bible and gay relationships tears at the church.
A judge ruled Monday that the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles can't confiscate the property of a parish that disassociated itself from the denomination over a gay bishop's ordination.
Nearly 100 lay leaders in the Episcopal diocese of Pittsburgh signed an open letter supporting their bishop's plan to split the diocese from the national church. The letter was in response to another letter written last month to Bishop Robert Duncan by 12 clergy outlining their opposition to the diocese's plan to break away from the national Episcopal Church, the Anglican body in the United States.
