The Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba was enthroned as primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) on March 30 in a four-hour service at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of the Shalom Center, listened to the preaching the Rev. Jeremiah White, the retired pastor of Chicago’s Trinity UCC Church and
The Baseball Fan observes with great devotion the days of the Baseball Season, and it became the custom to prepare for Opening Day by a
The New Yorker describes a Good Friday “Seven Last Words” service at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
In England, a Southampton funeral home has begun offering funeral services via webcast to mourners who cannot make the journey to funeral in person. The
Climate change exacerbates extreme world poverty and poverty is hastening global warming. Most people living in poverty around the world lack access to a reliable energy source, forcing many to choose energy sources such as oil, coal, or wood, which threaten to expand significantly the world’s greenhouse emissions and thus accelerate the effects of climate change.
In my teens, I thought some about heaven and decided that I wanted no part of it. So much of what I found fun consisted of activities that someone had proscribed, activities not likely allowed in heaven. Our cultural stereotype of angelic beings strumming harps in a place evocative of an impressionist painting left me, a non-musician, unimpressed.
We know that Joseph was concerned about his future with Mary because they were not yet married when she conceived. We know that he considered divorcing her, as the Jewish law allowed. So Jesus’ life began in a difficult and even dangerous situation in that small town in Israel.