Day: April 10, 2008

Religion as political weapon

Journalist and Professor Richard Domke spoke to Episcopal Communicators today about how the American religious landscape has shifted from “civil religion” to “political religion” that has allowed religion to become a political weapon.

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Leap of Faith

The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev. John Sentamu, will take off in and then abandon a perfectly good airplane for a good cause later

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Hard cases make bad law

Dale Rye reflects on the recent court ruling in the dispute between the Anglican District of Virginia and the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and says it is a perfect example of why “hard cases make bad law” and that, if the ruling stands, it would be a disaster for every church and religious society.

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Whole lot of religion going on….

In what is supposed to be the most secular city in the nation, there is a whole of lot of religion going this weekend in Seattle. But don’t be surprised if it looks a lot different that what most of us are used to.

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Female prophets: a lost legacy?

In a letter to the Corinthians written in mid-first century CE, Paul urges that female prophets at Corinth prophesy in the public assembly with a head covering, “because of the angels.” Paul recognizes women’s personal and public experience of the spirit, but his concern is that it seem unintelligible to outsiders.

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The advantage of language

Sometimes the light of God’s countenance shines so bright upon us, we are so affected with the wonders of the love and goodness of God, that our hearts worship and adore in a language higher than that of words, and we feel transports of devotion, which only can be felt.

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