Year: 2007

Barnstorming through Western Kansas

“The presiding bishop actually came to spend time with the people of this diocese where we are. It gives us a genuine sense of being cared for.” She suggested they could care for additional members, including non-English speakers.

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Canadian GS Roundup, Day 1

Today Canada’s place in the Anglican union will be discussed by John Sentamu the Archbishop of York, England. If Canada’s Anglicans later this week vote to bless same sex marriages, they may be cast out by the global communion.

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Christian Association of Nigeria elects new president

Archbishop Peter Akinola of the Anglican Church of Nigeria will hand over leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria. John Onayeikan, Catholic Archbishop of Abuja was elected president by a vote of 72 to 33 by delegates to the National Executive Council of CAN….

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We are not PBS

The Café is not a branch of the Public Broadcasting System. But we are trying to raise a little money this week to defray our

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Hid with Christ in God

Conversations about the sacraments are not esoteric arguments about essences and obscurities several frames of reference removed from our daily realities. No, the sacraments stand right next to our daily experience because they stand at the heart of what we understand Christianity to be; they are part and parcel of the mystery of salvation.

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Washing dishes

For much of my life I’ve lived contentedly by a few simple rules: don’t track mud in the house, take care of your own, help others, do as little harm as you can, change your oil every three thousand miles. But maybe enlightenment is simpler than we think.

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Street Pastors on Patrol

Street Pastors: local volunteers from churches are trained “to help those who have drunk too much or got into fights by getting them to taxis

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Globalization: Challenge and Gift

We have an opportunity to share God’s love with one another thanks to the Internet and through old and new informal global networks of individual, parish, and diocesan contacts. Such encounters of personally sharing, grace-filled experiences are life giving.

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