The Archive
Day: May 6, 2007
Working together in Ghana
The Episcopal Church, Archbishop of Canterbury and The Anglican Diocese of Ghana work together to build a hostel to accomodate pilgrims to the Retreat Center
Public mourning
For good or ill, the parish I serve is becoming skilled in a particular kind of hospitality: high-profile funerals. A few years ago, before I began working here, the parish opened its doors to hold a funeral for a young woman whose kidnap and brutal murder got top billing on every major news network. With television-news trucks, reporters, and cameras swarming the perimeter, a
Church Thriving
The Presiding Bishop in Iowa: “…one of the great joys I’ve had in my first six months, getting to travel and see the health and
Conservatives disapprove of CANA
Beyond the pomp of yesterday’s service and the buzz, it is too early to predict the future of Minns’s group and the conservative movement in
An Eastern heaven
Christians inherit two basic views of heaven. The popular Western version tends to be of the static angels-and-harps variety. I prefer the Eastern version. It has more of the flavor of dynamic continuity. We move “from glory to glory” right now, not simply after we’re dead.