When Nicodemus comes to see Jesus, he comes at night, which is probably the writer’s way of saying that he was in the dark or didn’t get it. Nicodemus is interested in Jesus and what he’s teaching, but he can’t get past his usual way of seeing things. “How can I be born again?” he asks. “I’m already a grown-up.”
“Weeping may spend the night,* but joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30 Evening darkens, grief knocks at my door and moves in for the
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, who is running for the Republican nomination for President, wrote a column in The New York Times recently defending his
The personal faith of candidates has become a very public part of the 2008 presidential campaign. Seven years after George W. Bush won the presidency in part with a direct appeal to conservative religious voters…it seems all the leading presidential candidates are discussing their religious and moral beliefs, even when they’d rather not.
Almost a decade ago, when the enormous threat to the fabric of the Anglican Communion was the consecration of a female bishop, the 1988 Lambeth Conference called for a way “to describe how the Anglican Communion makes authoritative decisions while maintaining unity and interdependence in the light of the many theological issues that arise from its diversity.” The Virginia Report….
The word “martyr,” derived from the Greek martus or “witness,” was originally applied to the first apostles as witnesses of Jesus Christ’s life and, especially, of his resurrection. Slowly it came to be associated with those Christians who had suffered hardship for their faith and eventually was limited to those who suffered death.
When Michael McManus lauds the CANA initiative and how it preserves “freedom of choice” in his syndicated column, a reader from Spotsylvania Co., Va., explains something about the freedom of choice. “My choice, like that of the majority of Episcopalians, is to remain a member of a denomination that provides safe haven for disagreement and that entertains diversity,” writes Bill Mehr.
But as for me, I have trusted in you, O LORD. * I have said, “You are my God. My times are in your hand;
The Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops have released a study document that is intended to be used as part of church-wide process to gather feedback for use by the House of Bishops in their September 30th meeting to respond to the Primate’s Tanzania Communique.