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Prayer request:  A ruling is expected to be announced today here in San Diego (Friday, 6th) regarding a judge's decision granting or denying summary judgement in two joined property cases.  Plaintiffs are The Episcopal Church of the United States and the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego.

Congregations affected by this ruling are St. Anne's Anglican Church, Oceanside and Holy Trinity Parish, Ocean Beach (my church home), both located here in San Diego.  The decision will affect the ministries of at least 5 clergy and approximately 400 active parishioners.  (read more...)

There will be more voices joining Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks soon, decrying the suicidal exchange of Europe's fertility for the sterility of secularism and hedonism.   He happens to be one of the earlier voices but he won't be the last.  I predict the chorus will swell based on my informal conversations with otherwise liberal-minded European colleagues who are starting to wake up and smell the espresso of a continent burgeoning with the children of fundamentalist Muslims.  "How did we get here?" they are asking.  The time is ripe for evangelism.  (read more...)