That the Freedom of the Human Spirit Shall Go On
August 30, 2008
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Art Photography, Suzanne Opton
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Month: August 2008
Gearing up for Gustav
August 30, 2008
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As Gustav looms large in the Gulf of Mexico, churches that remember all too well the marauding of Katrina are preparing to be at the front lines, drawing from lessons learned in the storm of 2005.
Claiming our truths
August 30, 2008
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The end of Benedictine spirituality is to develop a transparent personality. Dissimulation, half answers, vindictive attitudes, a false presentation of self are all barbs in the soul of the monastic. Holiness, this ancient rule says to a culture that has made crafty packaging high art, has something to do with being who we say we are, claiming our truths, opening our hearts, giving ourselves to the other pure and unglossed.
Advice for the candidates
August 29, 2008
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Panelists at the Washington Post’s On Faith section were asked to advise the two presidential candidates on the role that religion should play in their campaigns. Bishop John Bryson Chane of Washington is among those who responded.
Religious right likes McCain’s pick
August 29, 2008
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Religious conservatives are excited by Senator John McCain’s choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, says Ralph Reed in The New York
The GAFCONistas have their say
August 29, 2008
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The GAFCON primates have said a little bit about the Lambeth Conference, as have the border-crossing bishops they ordained. Mark Harris provides excellent analysis.
California prisons respond to change in marriage law
August 29, 2008
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A few months ago the Supreme Court in the State of California ruled that laws which made same-gender marriages illegal were in violation of the state Constitution’s equal-protection clause. The resulting scramble to change existing regulations has resulted in a few bumps along the way. The state’s Department of Corrections has responded by deciding to now recommend that prison chaplains stop performing any marriages for inmates.
No rain last night in Denver
August 29, 2008
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As a couple of commentators have pointed out, despite a half-serious attempt to call down rain on Barack Obama’s “parade” last night, the sky was
Seeking answers in a summer of pilgrimages
August 29, 2008
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Why is there so much at stake in the dispute about gay folk and their lives that it threatens to split the church and deepen the rift in American society? Here are some of the responses I have been working on: it isn’t really about sex, it’s all about power. It feels safer to wrangle about sex acts and tease out the sticky threads of disputed interpretations of Leviticus and the authority of the Bible than it is to talk about systems of privilege.
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