Heard by God
December 10, 2007
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Daily Reading for December 10 Do we feel seen, heard, remembered, and blessed by God? In our busy lives, we easily forget that we are
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Year: 2007
The original war on Christmas
December 9, 2007
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The War on Christmas has a glorious history. In 1645 Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan brethren took over jolly old England. Deciding that anything jolly was probably of the devil, they vowed to rid England of such decadent conceits as Christmas. Cromwell and Company banned Christmas and any festivities having to do with it. Not to be bested by their colleagues across the pond, Massachusetts Puritans criminalized Christmas, and, in 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts passed the Five-Shilling Anti-Christmas Law.
David Brooks on Mitt Romney’s speech on faith
December 9, 2007
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While there has been a great deal of commentary about Mitt Romney’s speech on faith in America, there is growing concern by some that the most disturbing aspect of the speech was that it expressly excludes the so-called faithless. David Brooks captured these concerns well in his New York Times column on Friday.
Just in time for Christmas
December 9, 2007
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The editors of Christian Century have announced their selections for the best books (and music) of 2007 in several categories, including theology, spirituality, fiction, children’s lterature, classical music and pop Christmas music.
The Chicago Consultation
December 8, 2007
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Readers of the Café are going to be hearing a lot about The Chicago Consultation in the days ahead. The Consultation, held at Seabury-Western Seminary, Dec. 5 thru 7, was a meeting of some 50 Anglicans from around the world committed to advancing the full inclusion of gays and lesbains within the Communion and to resisting those who seek to split the Communion by setting one group of marginalized people against another.
Faithful remnant
December 8, 2007
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori: The Episcopal Church will continue in the Diocese of San Joaquin, albeit with new leadership
San Joaquin heads south
December 8, 2007
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“An entire California diocese of the U.S. Episcopal Church voted to secede on Saturday in a historic split following years of disagreement over the church’s expanding support for gay and women’s rights.” In these words, Reuters misinterprets today’s vote in the Diocese of San Joaquin.
Bishop Schofield explains it all
December 8, 2007
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Bishop John David Schofield of the Diocese of San Joaquin has apparenlty been consulting the same lawyers as the Bush-Cheney administration and has received the same advice: the constitution allows you to claim whatever powers you desire. How else to explain the curious argument he presented to delegates at his convention today in urging them to vote to secede from the Episcopal Church?
Religious freedom and ‘pious cruelty’
December 8, 2007
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For much of its history, the United States has largely avoided the religious conflicts that have cost other nations countless lives. Our ability to escape such conflicts is grounded in the Constitution’s First Amendment, which requires government to maintain as neutral an attitude as possible toward religion, writes Ethan Fishman. Today, however, the Bush administration seeks to repudiate it.
Apologies all around
December 8, 2007
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“I would never denigrate any civilized response of anyone for harm he may have done or misbehavior he may have engaged in,” writes Gorman Beauchamp in The American Scholar. “But apologies offered by people to their contemporaries for actions taken long before any of them were born strike me as vacuous and more than a little exhibitionistic.”
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