Canada’s Anglicans voted Sunday by “the slimmest of margins” against letting priests bless same-sex marriages, but earlier in the day they also agreed the blessings
The vote to explicitly allow Canadian Anglican clergy to perform same-sex blessings was defeated by a very small margin by the Bishops of the church. The lay and clergy votes both supported its passage.
American schools are awash in moral instruction — on sex, multiculturalism, environmental awareness and so on — and basically none of it works according to David Brooks, who offers some thoughts on why this is so.
The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada has passed a resolution that the blessing of same sex unions is not in conflict with core doctrine.
The Episcopal Church has largely failed to attract new twentysomthing members according to most demographic data. Bishop Kirk Smith of Arizona thinks that the Episcopal Church has much to learn from Emerging Chuch movement.
An emerging fixture in American teen culture are social networking sites such as Face Book and MySpace, but as Caitlin Flanagan explains, there is a dark side to these sites that parents and educators must address
Once we owned a cat named Nora who seemed to have set up shop at a middling level on the ascent to God. Placid and fat, Nora spent her mornings lying in a pool of sunlight near the back door, and sometimes she gazed into the distance as if she were seeing something of great importance hidden from the rest of us.