Recently, browsing on the internet, I came across—serendipitously!—the intriguing account of the origin of the famous “Prayer of St. Francis,” which is now in our prayer book. It is known and loved the world over: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace…” The story illustrates how grace works through odd, accidental ways and surfs the waves of human error.
Bishop Cox served as Bishop Suffragan of Maryland and assisting Bishop of Oklahoma. He previously admitted ordaining two priests and a deacon at Christ Church in Overland Park, Kan., in 2005. A month later, he returned to Christ Church and led a service of confirmation. Disciplinary investigations of the Rt. Rev. Andrew Fairfield, retired Bishop of North Dakota, and the Rt. Rev. David Bena, former Bishop Suffragan of Albany, are in process.
As the United States Senate began floor debate on the nation’s Farm Bill, Washington Bishop John Bryson Chane and five other faith leaders spoke at
When the researchers tested their hypothesis on managers who were asked to make a judgment call involving a conscientious employee who needed to go home early one day, they found that the managers who believed most strongly that they were good people came to extreme conclusions: They either let the employee off for the rest of the day with full pay, or insisted the employee stay and work full hours.
This is one of those man bites dog stories:
“We owe our existence as a parish to the Soup Kitchen,” says the Rev. William A. Greenlaw, rector of Holy Apostles’ (Chelsea, NYC). “It has put us on the map. Many who are now vestry members began as Soup Kitchen volunteers.”
Peter Akinola, individually, and in concert with eight other Primates or former primates alleging to speak for the Global South, is attempting to pressure Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, into postponing the Lambeth Conference and calling an emergency meeting of the Primates.
Grassley, who in recent years has forced changes in such nonprofit organizations as the American Red Cross, the Nature Conservancy, American University and the Smithsonian Institution, said in a statement that the allegations involve such amenities as private jets and Rolls-Royces. He has also asked for credit card records, clothing and jewelry expenses and any cosmetic surgery expenses.
Painting by Allan Rohan Crite
“The 2006 Lebanon War is the motivation of this work. “The conflict killed more than a thousand people, most of who were Lebanese, and displaced
Martha Bean is a master gardener and grew nearly all of the fruits and vegetables in this Thanksgiving arrangement herself. She creates an arrangement like