Tag Archives: Leaders & Institutions

After 25 years of preaching about God, hell and salvation, Jerry DeWitt just couldn’t take it anymore.
For too long, he said, he’d been preaching messages he didn’t believe. He was torn by the feeling that he was living a lie.

We are pleased to welcome Pastor Kurt Bubna to the Spokane Faith & Values team!

Bubna is pastor of Eastpoint Church in Spokane Valley, is an author, a family man and coffee nut.

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, will tour ecumenical mission projects in the Yakama Indian Reservation, Dec. 8, and preach at St. John’s Cathedral in Spokane Dec. 9.

The Church of England has said no to consecrating female bishops and says the issue can't be addressed again until 2015.

According to the Religion News Service, "Many of the 470 members of the church's three-tiered General Synod (bishops, clergy and laity) were stunned that the House of Laity couldn't garner a two-thirds majority in favor of women bishops.

CANCELLED: Immaculate Heart Retreat Center will be hosting an Advent Day of Prayer, "The Timeless and the Bread of Heaven" led by Bishop Blase Cupich, on Dec. 5.

According to a press release, Cupich will lead participants in two conferences reflecting on the meaning of time, the beginning of the church year, for people who live with the timeless in their hearts and who feast on bread from heaven.

CONCORD, N.H. (RNS) When V. Gene Robinson became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in 2003, his controversial election triggered shock waves and fears of schism across the worldwide Anglican Communion. Hundreds of parishes left the Episcopal Church in protest.