What he said
June 10, 2007
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Tobias Haller has a gift for clarifying muddled stituations from a theological as well as a political perspective. His recent reflection on the current state
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An exception
June 10, 2007
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Get Religion is a Web site devoted to analyzing the media’s coverage of religion. It is bankrolled by Howard Ahmanson, who also bankrolls the Institute on Religion and Democracy. But it is home to the astute and fair minded Doug LeBlanc, whose analysis of the recent TIME magazine story on Rowan Williams is well worth reading.
Post-everything
June 10, 2007
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Perhaps we all suffer a universal disease that might be described as labelism. Labels are ways we control and define others. The quickest way to objectify another human being is to twist a descriptive label into a slur. We put labels in scare quotes and live into their narrow meanings at great peril.
Turning to God
June 10, 2007
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What motivates us to begin to follow the Christian path? Here we find that motives cluster around three major features of Christianity that attract many people: God’s power, goodness, and wisdom. Some people are motivated to turn to God because they seek help with various kinds of distress;
Jefferts Schori shines on Moyers show
June 9, 2007
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori continues to be the Episcopal Church’s best ambassador to the wider culture. Watch her appearance Friday night on Bill Moyers
Six hundred gather for Kelsey funeral
June 9, 2007
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Ecclesiastical orders melted at the church door in Marquette, Michigan, on Friday, June 8, as 600 people touched by the life and stunned by the
More love for FNL
June 9, 2007
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Friday Night Lights, beloved of this blog, its predecessor and the redoubtable Katie Sherrod, has been nominated for five Television Critics Association Awards, including program
Columba of Iona
June 9, 2007
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Let me bless almighty God, whose power extends over sea and land, whose angels watch over all.
Let me study sacred books to calm my soul; I pray for peace, kneeling at heaven’s gates.
Let me do my daily work, gathering seaweed, catching fish, giving food to the poor.
It’s real, it’s urgent and it’s time to act!
June 9, 2007
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The Presiding Bishop joined other panelists in recognizing that the science of climate change is real and that urgent national action to respond to climate change is needed. In her testimony Bishop Jefferts Schori urged that reducing carbon emissions by 15-20 percent by 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050 should be a national priority noting that inaction now is the most costly of all courses of action for those living in poverty and vulnerable communities.
Blogging the Bible
June 8, 2007
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A little over a year ago, David Plotz of Slate set out to write blog entries on the entire Hebrew Bible. This week, some 39
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