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Day: August 27, 2007

Baptism by fire hose?

August 27, 2007 1 Comment

Accompanied by brass bands and thundering preachers, several hundred people squeezed onto a narrow street in the District’s Shaw neighborhood yesterday to be baptized in the drenching shower of a fire hose. The service, in its 81st year, is an annual tradition for the church, which has its national headquarters in the District. Yesterday’s mass baptism took place in front of the House of Prayer’s flagship church, the gold-domed “God’s White House” at Sixth and M streets NW.

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Two years after Katrina

August 27, 2007 No Comments

Two years after Katrina, several churches in the Diocese of Mississippi still struggle to rebuild. “Residents are still numb from the catastrophic forces which turned their world upside down on August 29, 2005,” said the Rev. Canon David Johnson, Canon to the Ordinary in Mississippi. “The work to recover will be at least a decade in being accomplished. For many, the magnitude and long-term impact is just now setting in.”

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Archbishop Mwamba on the future of the Anglican Communion

August 27, 2007 No Comments

Loud voices from Africa, aided by the “almighty dollar” and internet lobbyists, are distorting the true picture of what Africa’s 37 million Anglicans really think about sexuality and the future of the Anglican Communion, said the Bishop of Botswana, the Rt Revd Musonda Mwamba, last February. Was he correct?

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New poll on God and young Americans

August 27, 2007 1 Comment

An extensive survey by The Associated Press and MTV found that people aged 13 to 24 who describe themselves as very spiritual or religious tend to be happier than those who don’t. When it comes to spirituality, American young people also are remarkably tolerant — nearly 7 in 10 say that while they follow their own religious or spiritual beliefs, others might be true as well.

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My mother, the evangelist

August 27, 2007 2 Comments

My mother was very proud of the people she “got” into the Episcopal church. As her own death neared, she would often run them off on her fingers, her friends, my friends, my sister’s friends, all the people she had managed to get firmly planted in some local parish. Jack and Jodie, Marcia and Chuck, Ken and Sally, Susan, Patty, Merrie…

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Thomas Gallaudet

August 27, 2007 No Comments

The growth of the spiritual kingdom, as a divinely appointed organization, is a mystery; and the growth of spiritual life in the hearts of each individual member of the spiritual kingdom is a mystery. We behold indications, from time to time, marking the gradual progress of these two kinds of growth; we believe in them, as realities coming to pass, in consequence of Christ’s redemption, and yet we know not how.

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