The Archive
Day: March 28, 2008
Earth Hour
Many people around the world are planning on observing an hour of “darkness” tomorrow night as a way of participating in a global earth hour. The event was created by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007.
This weekend in San Joaquin
“Members of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin are gathering in Stockton, California, March 28 to take two major steps in reorganizing the diocese. The first step will be a “service for healing and forgiveness” at the Episcopal Church of St. Anne in Stockton, the temporary home of the diocese.” Following that a special convention will be held at St. John the Baptist in Lodi for the purpose of re-organizing the diocese whose most recent convention voted to leave the Episcopal Church.
Racism and Religion in America
There have been a number of essays posted in the secular media over the past two weeks which have attempted to put the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons about racism in the United States into some sort of broader context. But there have also been a few helpful essays written from within the religious community.
Interfaith Dry Cleaning
The blogger Aaron Orear has posted a lovely story of interfaith religious cooperation at his local cleaners. It’s a reminder that while there are certainly tensions between christians and muslims, there are still plenty of hopeful signs all around us that we can live and work in harmony with each other.
Religious response to credit shortage
The credit shortage that has been the focus of many stories in the secular press is also effecting the “micro-finance” projects that commercial lenders were beginning. How can people of faith act to respond in a sputtering financial market?
Salvation and spin class
On Maundy Thursday we had a service in the evening. So I decided to try the Thursday morning spin class instead. Little did I know, the Thursday morning class is “Devotion in Motion,” an hour-long spin class during which the instructor plays praise and worship music and talks about God, using the idea of a bike ride as a metaphor for the spiritual life.
Two springs
Holy Week is the world’s sacred Winter;
The earth is a widow, the skies are sere,
There’s a sound of scourging and nailing in the vinegary wind;
And the darkness chokes the Son of Man.