I still haven’t figured out how you are sure that the Holy Spirit is calling and when she is not. It makes me wonder about the disciples and their call to follow Jesus. How did they know that it was the right thing to do? Did they weigh the pros and the cons? Did they follow their gut?
Three years later at the 1880 Convention, the persistent Dr. Huntington tried again. He proposed a joint committee to consider “whether in view of the fact that this Church is soon to enter upon the second century of its organized existence in this country, the changed conditions of national life do not demand certain alterations in the Book of Common Prayer, in the direction of Liturgical enrichment and increased flexibility of use.”
You might have heard today about Oscar the Cat, a feline who seems to be aware when nursing home residents are about to fly away to God’s celestial shores. Creepy, or angelic? Dr. David Dosa, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, leans toward the latter in an essay describing Oscar as he makes his daily rounds.
The Rev. Michael Ruk is one of an apparently growing number of priests that are heading up more than one church. But what’s interesting about this phenomenon is that it is allowing small churches with a community focus to remain open, when consolidation to larger parishes might otherwise be the trend.
While he thought 6 in 10 might be considering not attending, Bishop Scott-Joynt added that such bishops would feel “constrained” by their loyalty to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Living Church Foundation also looks at environmental stewardship from another angle in its current issue, examining “viral marketing” through electronic communications with respect to
Environmentalism as Christian stewardship is becoming more visible as increasingly, churches are going green. In this article, several Episcopal churches’ green initiatives are profiled.
When does public awareness about an issue, whether it is civil rights or global warming, reach its crest and spill over into public action? A small group of Episcopalians think they have an answer….
The blessed and glorious ever-virgin Mary, sprung from the royal stock and family of David, born in the city of Nazareth, was brought up at Jerusalem in the temple of the Lord. Her father was named Joachim, and her mother Anna. Her father’s house was from Galilee and the city of Nazareth, but her mother’s family from Bethlehem.
“We need to rediscover the greatest story tellers and I have to say, as a Christian, that Jesus was an unbelievable story teller. He had the ability of simplifying and then exaggerating and that is what actually happens in Harry Potter. I don’t go in for magic, but mystery for me is that which remains when explanation, logic, reasoning have all been exhausted.”