The Wall Street Journal reports on an effort by a Scottsdale based conservative advocacy group to create a legal test to the IRS’s interpretation of the limits of political speech within churches.
There seems to have been a small change in the board of directors of the Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD). The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, who joined the board a few years ago, is no longer listed as a member.
At least one critic has claimed that Anglicanism and other forms of Western Christianity in their present form are doomed to fail because they are too tightly bound to the West and its culture. But a recent event in Missouri gives another writer hope.
A new coalition of voices within the American Christian community is beginning to lobby in concert for a change in US environmental policy. The newest voices that are joining to the call for this change are coming from the traditionally politically conservative evangelical wing.
Christine Wicker argues in a recent column (and in her new book) that the political power of the Evangelical vote in the United States is actually much less than we’ve been led to believe. And even what power there was is now decreasing.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has not given permission to Bishop Gene Robinson to preach from the pulpits of England. Giles Fraser points out that this sort of thing has happened before. He argues that it was wrong then and it is wrong now.
Recognize to whom you owe the fact that you exist, that you breathe, that you understand, that you are wise, and, above all, that you know God and hope for the kingdom of heaven and the vision of glory. . . . Is it not God who asks you now in your turn to show yourself generous above all other creatures and for the sake of all other creatures?
The term “discipleship” is probably associated, for some of us, with more evangelical and fundamentalist traditions and “making disciples” primarily with overseas mission, often associated with cultural conservatism. But I believe it’s a term that we in the Episcopal/Anglican tradition should be reclaiming, reframing, and considering in light of our tradition and the culture surrounding us.