Psalm 119 is long. It is repetitious. But these are the qualities that invite us into a spirit of contemplation. It issues an invitation to dive into the Word and—yes—into the Law, to roll ourselves in it, to lose and loose ourselves within its depth and breadth and height and width. To find hope. To find delight.
Prayer and meditation have an important part to play in opening up new ways and new horizons. If our prayer is the expression of a deep and grace-inspired desire for newness of life—and not the mere blind attachment to what has always been familiar and “safe”—God will act in us and through us to renew the Church by preparing, in prayer, what we cannot yet imagine or understand.
The voice of the Global South apparenlty emanates not from Abuja, Nigeria, but from Fairfax, Virginia. The Church Times reports that Martyn Minns, not Peter Akinola is the principal author of the recent letter from the Church of Nigeria that bears Akinola’s name. The significance of this development lies less in the fact that Akinola has a ghostwriter than that what has long been portrayed as the authentic voice of African Anglicanism is, manifestly, not African.
The Anglican Bishop of El Salvador has released a letter to the people of his province in light of the recent natural disasters of earthquake and hurricane in South and Central America. He calls on the people of his country and all the Anglican Provinces of the Americas to do what they can to help out in these difficult days.
A “third place” is a safe place between home and work, or home and school. Think soda fountain, barbershop, the pub, even church. Today Starbucks
There’s a growing movement in the farming and grocery industry to consider the religious teachings on food when consumers are deciding what to purchase. This isn’t simply a matter of more farmers growing food according to kosher principles or more butchers becoming more sensitive to scriptural injunctions about how animals should be slaughtered. There’s also a focus on questions about …
When Daniel from Dover, Del. wanted a romantic way to propose to his love, Lily, he remembered his favorite childhood summer building sand castles. He googled “Sandcastle Lady” and found his teacher, Lynn McKeown. Together they created a plan: He and Lily would take a sunset walk to Market Beach, where Lynn promised to have built a castle to fulfill his dreams.
Since Scripture says that God made everything for himself, there will be a time when He will cause everything to conform to its Maker and be in harmony with Him. In the meantime, we must make this our desire; that as God Himself willed that everything should be for Himself, so we, too, will that nothing, not even ourselves, may be or have been except for Him, that is according to his will, not ours.
Bishop Mark Sisk, of the Diocese of New York has written a letter to his diocese about some of the issues facing the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church’s relationship to the Communion. “The presenting question is: Will the Communion survive in its present form or won’t it? To state the obvious: no one can answer that question with certainty…”