Douglas LeBlanc is the Associate Editor for Book Reviews and writes about Christianity and culture. He and his wife, Monica, attend St. John’s Parish Church on Johns Island, South Carolina. They look after cats named Finn and Mittens.
The Rev. William Taylor: “Yesterday’s commissioning was the second of its kind, and I suspect many others will now follow — and, in due course, ordination services.”
Timothy Dudley-Smith, who wrote “Tell Out My Soul” and more than other 400 hymns and served as Bishop of Thetford from 1981 to 1992, died August 12 at 97.
“I pray for our clergy and the church family in Southport and for the way they continue to respond and live out the cure of souls in their community,” wrote Bishop John Perumbalath of Liverpool.
Archbishop Henry Ndukuba: “I want to inform the pilgrims here that the martyrs lacked nothing, but they chose to give their lives to Christ. When you have Jesus Christ, you have everything.”
