The example of Jesus, and the experience of mud season, remind me of a harsher truth: to be reborn, we first must die. The way to Jerusalem lies through mud. Dying, like mud, can take many forms, but every death, in the sense I mean, is a letting go. We let go of ambition, of pride, of ego.
Here are three names to remember: Genarlow Wilson, Stepha Henry, and Edith Isabel Rodriguez. Each of these names has been in the news recently. Each tells a different story but with a very familiar theme. I invite us to remember them now because each name will probably disappear soon as other stories emerge with other names.
The Episcopal Church has made a major commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, and Joe Nocera of the New York Times asks whether we can really end extreme poverty in Africa.
A University of Texas study, based on data from more than 10,000 Americans from adolescence through young adulthood finds that those who attend college are less likely to lose their faith than those who never attend college….
The Canadian Anglican General Synod begins a seven day General Synod to elect a new Primate and decide whether to approve same sex blessings
First the Primates of Rwanda and Southeast Asia installed an American bishop, then the Primate of Nigeria followed suit, and now the Primate of Keyna has as well. Reportedly, Archbishop Orombi of Uganda is also considering appointing an American bishop and setting up a missionary church in the United States. What does this all mean?
I am not suggesting that anyone learn more about world religions in order to subvert them. Sacred truth is a very deep well into which human beings have been lowering leaky buckets for millennia. The more we learn about what other traditions have fetched up, the more we learn about our own.
Writing on The American Prospect’s Web site, Paul Waldman says research shows that the more secular people there are in a county, the more likely that people from evangelical denominations who live there will vote Republican. Why, you ask?
She was one of three women in a slate of five. Should she receive consent she would be the fifteenth woman in the elected bishop in the church and one of the five youngest members of the current House of Bishops.
I was brought up with the poisonous notion that you had to renounce love of the earth in order to receive the love of God. My experience has been just the opposite: a love of the earth and existence so overflowing that it implied, or included, or even absolutely demanded, God. Love did not deliver me from the earth, but into it.