Bishop Mark Sisk, of the Diocese of New York has written a letter to his diocese about some of the issues facing the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church’s relationship to the Communion. “The presenting question is: Will the Communion survive in its present form or won’t it? To state the obvious: no one can answer that question with certainty…”
Elvis asked for a “little less conversation, a little more action please.” The moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Rev. Joan S. Gray, asks
The Church by the Glades has been in the news lately. First, a few days ago it was running near the top of the Squidoo’s
Different Christian denominations in Nigeria have come to different conclusions about whether to make the test for HIV compulsory as a condition for marriage.
Social networking tools on the internet are providing new ways of giving and getting involved. “You can donate money to a charity, but it seems like it just goes into a pile and you never know what really goes on there,” says Mr. Alamo. “With Kiva, you just pick someone out and lend to them directly and watch what they do and how they succeed. That was the main appeal.”
Humanity’s frequent needs make it necessary for us to call upon God often, and to taste by frequent contact, and to discover by tasting how sweet the Lord is. It is in this way that the taste of His own sweetness leads us to love God in purity more than our need alone would prompt us to do.
Is time really “unredeemable,” as the poet, TS Eliot, appears to suggest? Is the past – our lives, relationships, decisions – lost to us forever? Only in the sense that these things have a fixed and unchanging identity, or only if we allow ourselves to be trapped in them.