Year: 2007

Fallibilism

Fallibilism is the idea that our knowledge is imperfect, provisional, subject to revision in the face of new evidence. Fallibilism says: Here’s what I know to a moral certainty, know well enough to live by. But I could be wrong.

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Sheltering the homeless

Youth minister Shaun Ellis believes serving the homeless is the duty of churches. “In my understanding of Scripture, that’s a mandate we’ve been given. If churches are not involved in that we’re missing the call.”

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Monks of Burma

Updating our story on the protests by the Buddhist monks in Burma (also known as Myanmar). Several Anglican commentators have contrasted the bold Buddhist monks

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Prayers for Camila

Raids, detention and deportation have been lurking around the Misa Alegría for many months now—nephews, daughters-in-law, friends—but until recently nobody from our immediate family had been affected by our broken immigration system. Late in August, we felt the impact. Sunday, Aug. 19, we bid a sad farewell to two of our own, a farewell that will mean long years of separation to a young family.

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No Dove, no church

The Holy Ghost is a Dove, and he makes Christ’s Spouse, the church, a Dove, a term so oft iterate in the Canticles, and so much stood on by Saint Augustine and the Fathers, as they make no question. No Dove, no church.

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History lesson

Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh recently compared the prospect of some Episcopal dioceses leaving the Episcopal Church for a new jurisdiction with what occurred during

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No turning back

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told a standing room only forum at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco “All people – including gay and lesbian Christians

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Eames encouraged

The chair of the Lambeth Commission on Communion which authored the Windsor Report, retired Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, Lord Robin Eames, said

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