Earlier this week we had a discussion of the latest Episcopal Church statistics. Now the Church of England is releasing her results from the past
The Episcopal Public Policy Network notes that during its recent meeting in New Orleans the House of Bishops called upon Congress to fulfill its moral obligation “to create a new vision for recovery of the Gulf Coast.” H.R. 1227, which addressed this call, passed the House of Representatives with “strong bipartisan support,” according to EPPN, and now the Network has turned its attention on generating grassroots support for the Senate version, S.1668.
The Evangelical Theological Society held its annual meeting earlier this month, and Christianity Today’s blast email today features a piece on ETS’s most popular breakout session. CT blogger Ted Olsen reports on J.P. Moreland’s standing-room only “How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It.”
Roman Catholic bishops have been providing guidance to their flock on political issues for ages, and for the past thirty-odd years they’ve even explicitly sounded off about various matters at stake in the voting booth. But this year, the bishops have taken it further by addressing how what voters tick on their ballot ties in with their salvation. But what those issues are may surprise you.
Susan Russell has the story of how Bishop Dabney Smith of the Diocese of Southwest Florida withdrew permission he had previously granted for Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire to speak at a Sarasota church. Bishop Smith appears to have taken a lesson from the Jeffrey John chapter of the Rowan Williams playbook entitled, “How to Alienate your Supporters without Placating your Adversaries.”
Evangelism isn’t about beating opponents into submission—intellectual or otherwise. At its heart, it’s about sharing love, communicating who God is and how God is about the work of redemption and reconciliation. It’s less about what we know than who we know—and how he has made himself known through the power of the resurrection at work in our lives. That having been said, there are some fundamentals that have to be covered.
My move from New York City to western South Dakota changed my sense of time and space so radically I might as well have gone to sea. In journeying on the inland ocean of the Plains, the great void at the heart of North America, I’ve discovered that time and distance, those inconveniences that modern life with its increasingly sophisticated computer technologies seeks to erase, have a reality and a terrifying beauty all their own.