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Jefferts Schori comments on Fort Worth suit

The Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, has issued a statement about the Episcopal Church's lawsuit to regain church properties in the Fort Worth area. Click here to read her statement. The same Web page...


TCU drops plans to set aside housing for gay students and others interested in gay issues

Texas Christian University in Fort Worth caused a stir last week when it announced plans for on-campus housing for gay and lesbian students, their supporrters, and others interested in issues related to homosexuality. The university has since put those plans...


TCU to provide campus housing for gay students

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Texas Christian University will set aside on-campus apartments in the fall for gay students and their allies. The paper says it "may be the only such college housing in the region." Here's the story....


Al Meredith of Fort Worth's Wedgwood Baptist to preach at Ill. church where pastor was shot

Al Meredith is pastor of Fort Worth's Wedgwood Baptist Church, which on Sept. 15 1999 was the scene of a horrific shooting, claiming seven young lives and that of the gunman Meredith has remained at the church, helping it...


Report on Diana Butler Bass talk in Fort Worth

Bass has written extensively, and with some optimism, about the mainline Protestant churches. She was recently in Fort Worth for a talk sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (the area churches loyal to the Episcopal Church, as opposed...


A Dallas Episcopal priest comments on the split in Fort Worth

The Rev. Wylie Miller, vicar of the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in Dallas' Pleasant Grove area, sent the commentary below. It addresses the breakup of the Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese into two dioceses - one, led by Bishop...


A Jefferts Schori homily, delivered in Fort Worth

While in Fort Worth this weekend for the reorganization of the Episcopal Church diocese based there, the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, gave two homilies. Below you'll find the one she gave on Saturday...


Why don't progressive churches evangelize?

That's the question entertained in this essay by Charlie Johnson, the interim pastor at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth....


Gulick recommended as provisional Episcopal bishop of Fort Worth

Here's a story I wrote earlier today for the paper's online version: A Kentucky bishop will likely become the temporary leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, which is reorganizing following the departure of most churches and Bishop...


Jefferts Schori calls special meeting in Fort Worth

The Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, has called a special meeting for Saturday, Feb. 7, in Fort Worth, one purpose of which will be election of a provisional bishop for the Fort Worth Diocese....


Archbishop of Canterbury meets with deposed Pittsburgh bishop

The Episcopal News Service has the story. Bishop Duncan's fate has been closely watched in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, which is likely to follow the Diocese of Pittsburgh's lead and leave the Episcopal Church. Fort Worth is scheduled...


Our Mother of Mercy Catholic School to hold homecoming

The Fort Worth school has been going for 78 years. Here's a press release about the event:...


Bishop Iker gives 10 reasons why Fort Worth Episcopal diocese should realign

Episcopal News Service has a story on Bishop Jack Iker and his 10-point rationale for why the Diocese of Fort Worth should leave the Episcopal Church and realign with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. The Diocese is...


UMC General Conference wraps up in Fort Worth

The quadrennial legislative meeting of the United Methodist Church has concluded in Fort Worth. Budget matters and social issues dominated near the end. Click here for a wrap up story from United Methodist News Service....


Southern Baptists of Texas Convention bypassing Fort Worth

The SBTC says it wanted to hold its evangelism conference there, but couldn't go along with liability conditions set by the city of Fort Worth. Here's the SBTC's news release:...

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