The Rt. Rev. Trevor Mwamba, Bishop of Botswana and dean of the Province of Central Africa, speaks about the Anglican Church in his local context and his vision for his diocese, especially in terms of education and empowerment.
Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, Primate of the Anglican Church of Uganda, has written a long essay that explains his sense of Anglicanism and why Anglicanism has an important message to the people of Uganda. It can help westerners understand the Ugandan Church’s objections to actions taken in other provinces.
The Church Times has a lead article that gives a sort of meta-view of the most recent General Synod in York and its functioning. Many
Race is often the “elephant in the room” about which nobody wants to speak. When I preach about racial justice, whether in a predominantly Caucasian or African-American congregation, invariably at least one person will tell me that I was brave for doing so. Why does the topic of race make people uncomfortable?
The Rule can be appreciated for various aspects, but one that particularly appeals to me is its wise latitude in the way it encourages us monks to walk in the footsteps of the Gospel. The Rule tacitly acknowledges a certain pluralism, making general points instead of specific ones about many observances, allowing for creativity and improvement, where this is possible.
From TIME Magazine: The Democrats are so fired up, you could call them the new Moral Majority. This time the emphasis is as much on the majority as on the morality as they try to frame a message in terms of shared values. It’s an article of faith among party leaders that it was strategic stupidity to cede the values debate to Republicans.
Sinead O’Connor made headlines in the early ’90s when she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on national television. So it might
Through a partnership with Trinity Church Wall Street, the Episcopal Café will begin offering a weekly video feature produced by Trinity Television and New Media on Monday July 16.
The contemporary Episcopalian is called to draw upon all the resources of our ancient, global, multicultural and inclusive faith tradition – and that to do so will likely enrich our spiritual engagement with the Word of God so long starved by the Western attitudes of rationalism and modernity.
Balance, proportion, harmony are so central, they so underpin everything else in the Rule, that without them the whole Benedictine approach to the individual and to the community loses its keystone. This is something which speaks to us very immediately in the later twentieth century.