St. Bartholomew’s breaks away from Episcopal Diocese

St. Bartholemew’s TonawandaMembers of St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church will become the first [Diocese of Western New York] congregation to break ties with the Episcopal Church since the contentious 2003 ratification of an openly homosexual bishop by the national governing body…

With average weekend attendance of more than 500 people, St. Bart’s ranks as the largest Episcopal congregation in upstate New York.

– Report from The Buffalo News. See also George Conger’s report for Religious Intelligence.

Free audio book – Spurgeon’s ‘All of Grace’

Spurgeon on GraceThis month’s free audiobook from ChristianAudio is a reading of C.H. Spurgeon’s “All of Grace”. Use the code OCT2008 at the checkout.

The mp3 files are around 100MB and run for over three hours – available free until the end of October.