There is a crisis only in the minds of a few overly anxious people, in the pens of reporters eager to sell newspapers, in the keystrokes of some obsessed bloggers … and in the preaching of some clergy who might benefit from being a bigger fish in a smaller pond. But to most people, most of the time, there is just the church.
“The Bible was the world’s first Wikipedia article. So many hands have altered and edited the now lost originals that we will never know for sure what those originals said,” writes Doug Brown in his review of Bart D. Ehrman’s book, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why.
The Rev. Jan Nunley, the Episcopal Church’s deputy for communications, has picked apart a sensationalistic story in The New York Times that may have left readers with the false impression that a man who left the adult film industry six months ago is on the fast track toward becoming a priest.
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As a human being, Jesus Christ was as subject to the daily as any of us. And I see both the miracle of the manna and incarnation of Jesus Christ as scandals. They suggest that God is intimately concerned with our very bodies and their needs, and I doubt that this is really what we want to hear.
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In his sermon my husband said the world was “pregnant” in spring. In an eight minute sermon he used the word pregnant three times. That morning at coffee hour three women seemed determined to coax me into admitting that I was pregnant. One told me there was no shame in being pregnant sooner than one expected. She, after all, had been pregnant at each of her three weddings.