The Archive
Year: 2007
Global Voices Online
The world may be flat, as Thomas Friedman, argues, but much of the infomation we receive is filtered through a corporatized media, hierarchical institutions, and politically movitaved interest groups. Americans receive little information about other countries directly from the people who live there. But that is changing
Having enough fun?
Experts agree, Ann Hurlbut writes, “that the loss of natural play opportunities in an urbanized world of smaller families and a ‘push-button civilization’ meant that play, alas, could no longer be left to kids. Read her article and on online discussion about the state of (child’s) play.
The Fourth Commandment
There is no Sabbath any longer for so many Christians and Christian families. This is not about taking vacations. This is about taking time for rest, for stopping, for day dreaming, for worshipping God. It’s about taking time for silence and for listening to God.
Living at the edge
This experience of living at the edge is not so extraordinary as it may sound. We have all had it. Perhaps you have sat with someone who was near death, and found yourself drawn into her inner radiance, into a place where pain and fear give way before a lucid awareness of the nearness of life’s source.
Bishop Persell: reaching across the divide
The Chicago Tribune website has an article reporting on the work and ministry of Bishop William Persell, the Episcopal Bishop of Chicago who will be leaving Chicago in the fall of this year.
New Primate for Canada
The Rt. Rev. Frederick James Hiltz of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: A Primate’s ministry “inevitably involves what someone once described as “pushing the boat out from the shore,” launching out into the deep.” “It’s about the work of respecting the dignity of every human being, building a just society, and announcing the reign of God.”
A New Africanized Bishop for the U.S.
The Ugandan House of bishops has set the date for Bishop elect Guernsey’s consecration for Sunday, 2nd September 2007. The bishop elect is presently the rector of a church in Virginia.
The vessel of character
What’s needed is a structure for our spiritual life, some container to keep our growing awareness from dribbling away. As John Tarrant writes, in The Light Inside the Dark, “Everything new needs to be held, needs a place into which it can be born.”
Churching alone
I hate going to church alone. No, actually I despise going to church alone. I skip going to church on Sunday morning sometimes just so I will not have to go alone. Going alone and sitting there among people makes me fell even more alone than when I am at home all by myself.