The Morning Verse
The Morning Verse
The Permission to Stop
Rest is not a reward for the faithful; it is one of the things faith is for.
Daily Briefing
Bishops elected across two continents as a US court halts a 33-church property fight
In West Virginia, United Methodist News reports that the state Supreme Court has stopped a lawsuit brought by 33 United Methodist congregations over property. The West Virginia Conference says it remains committed to supporting those churches in the meantime.
A string of bishop elections framed the rest of the day, all carried by Anglican Ink. The House of Bishops of the Church of Uganda, meeting at Syamalede Archdeaconry headquarters in Busia District, elected the Very Rev Canon Eridad Milton Shissa as the 9th Bishop of Mbale and the Rev Canon Caleb Twinamatsiko as the 2nd Bishop of North West Ankole. In Zimbabwe, the Rev Canon Dr Albert Ncube, headmaster of St Columba's High School in Bulawayo, was elected the next Bishop of Matabeleland, filling the see left vacant when the Rt Rev Cleophas Lunga moved to a parish in south London.