Writing on The American Prospect’s Web site, Paul Waldman says research shows that the more secular people there are in a county, the more likely that people from evangelical denominations who live there will vote Republican. Why, you ask?
She was one of three women in a slate of five. Should she receive consent she would be the fifteenth woman in the elected bishop in the church and one of the five youngest members of the current House of Bishops.
I was brought up with the poisonous notion that you had to renounce love of the earth in order to receive the love of God. My experience has been just the opposite: a love of the earth and existence so overflowing that it implied, or included, or even absolutely demanded, God. Love did not deliver me from the earth, but into it.
Religion is becoming increasingly visible in virtual environments such as Second Life, according to the Washington Post. And users of the popular “sim” world are creating an Anglican Cathedral there and building a community for Anglicans and Episcopalians around the world.
Here’s the real problem with American liberalism: there is no such thing. What we call American liberalism is a Frankenstein’s monster of incongruous parts – a fat, affluent, overeducated New York/Washington head crudely screwed onto the withering corpse of the vanishing middle-American manufacturing class.
Before we move into more reflective vein, here is a quick rundown of Saturday morning news developments, the most interesting of which is that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori continues to attract the attention of the largest newspaper in whatever media market she visits.
That which we more strictly call piety, or the love of God, and which is an essential part of a right temper, some may perhaps imagine no way connected with benevolence: yet surely they must be connected, if there be indeed in being an object infinitely good.
There’s a bullet that we’ve somehow managed to dodge for lo these many years as a family. But this week it hit. We got the word from our all-star soccer team coach that a big tournament game had been scheduled on Sunday morning at 8 a.m.