The men and women of the Seabury Board, faculty and staff are facing the harsh truths of trying to sustain our seminaries as “mini-colleges” in an era when the rules of the theological training game have completely changed. This is not a “failure” on their part, but recognition of the future. The truth is, we are in an adapt-or-die evolutionary moment for theological education.
The last time we see Philip is in that great passage at the Last Supper, when Jesus was preparing his disciples for what was about to come. . . . In spite of all that Jesus had taught them, Philip asked for more: “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”
A gay audience member asked when he and his partner of 10 years will be able to have their relationship blessed by the church. “I don’t think it’s going to happen this year,” Jefferts Schori said, adding that the national church’s General Convention undoubtedly will revisit the issue when it meets again in 2009. “I think it certainly will happen in our lifetimes.”
Paul Bagshaw of the Modern Churchpeople’s Union blog Only Connect has created a flow chart of the disciplinary process contained in the appendix of the
He commended to the audience, as a proven remedy against anxiety, Jesus’s message in John 16:12, “There is still much that I could say to you, but the burden would be too great for you now. However, when he comes who is the Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all the truth …”
Boating season is getting under way in the northern United States, and priests on Lake Erie’s Ohio shoreline have wisely found a way to make
Mike Croghan, the Rude Armchair Theologian, examines a day in the life of The Lead (yesterday as it happens) and asks some pertinent quesitons about
From the Fort Worth Star Telegram: Delegates at the United Methodist Church’s General Conference voted Wednesday to adhere to the church’s position that marriage should
High-ranking Shiite and Sunni leaders are preparing to issue a religious decree condemning suicide bombings and other forms of violence, according to an Anglican minister who has led efforts to bring the two Muslim sects closer.
We haven’t had a chance to keep up with the controversy surrounding the National Day of Prayer, but Frederick Clarskson of the blog Talk2Action has. He reports that: The franchise to host official, and often controversial Day- related events is held by Shirley Dobson, wife of James. The official National Day of Prayer Taskforce operates out of the HQ of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs.