Members of the Church of England’s General Synod (similar to the Episcopal Church’s General Convention) have created accounts for themselves and developed a social network on the Facebook site.
Bishop Henry Whipple of Minnesota convinced Presidents Lincoln, Grant, McKinley and Cleveland to modify federal Indian policy, and even got famed “Indian fighter” Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman to admit publicly that he was a liar and backed Gen. Phil Sheridan into changing a warlike Indian policy for the federal government into something less bloody.
The Washington Post has a lovely interactive panorama of the Washington Cathedral, photographed on a recent summer night.
The City of Detroit Development Agency offered to pay half the cost of renovating St. John’s Episcopal Church. American Atheists took the city to court, saying that the grant violated the establishment clause of the Constitution–and as such, the city has withheld the payment to the church. U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn ruled yesterday that while some of the uses of the money were unconstitutional, the churches were eligible to use the money to improve landscaping and facades.
So, in the Living Church, we have… The bishops of the Diocese of Sydney have told Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams that they will not
The Colorado Springs Gazette reports: DENVER – An ecclesiastical court on Wednesday convicted the Rev. Donald Armstrong of stealing nearly $400,000 from his Colorado Springs
Last week, USA Today reported on the growing trend of doctors’ refusing to treat patients for religious reasons. The phenomenon goes beyond abortion and fetal tissue research and includes such matters as prescribing Viagra or performing in-vitro fertilization. At issue in many of these cases is gay discrimination
Dominican spirituality does not originate in high theory or in a particular spiritual wisdom embodied in clearly defined techniques. Effectively, Dominic’s vision was to respond to concrete pastoral needs. This, and a reliance on structures that he already knew, suggests a fundamental pragmatism and functionalism in his approach to the spiritual life.
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.