Back to Church Sunday
September 27, 2008
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Anglican churches across Britain hope to attract up to 30,000 new faces on Sunday after a drive to extend personal invitations to would-be worshippers.
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Rosh Ha-Shanah: birthday of the world
September 27, 2008
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Seventy years on, as we face a new year, forgetfulness reigns: yet more tyrants; yet more victims. And so, the summons of “the birthday of the world” seems ever more urgent – not just for Jews, but also for humanity.
Southern Virginia elects new bishop
September 27, 2008
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The Rev. Herman (Holly) Hollerith was elected today as the Tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia on the sixth ballot.
Christian vegans and the humane society
September 27, 2008
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…it turns out that the animal welfare cause started as a Christian movement, that the Humane Society has an employee whose title is “director of the animals and religion program,” and that the society is now embarked on an “All Creatures Great and Small” campaign aimed at religious congregations and schools
You can pray in school
September 27, 2008
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This seems like a good moment to revisit that continually confused and confusing issue, prayer in schools. There is a great deal of misinformation and misunderstanding of what kind of prayer is permitted in the public schools of the United States of America.
10 Commandments for bloggers
September 27, 2008
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Ruth Gledhill writing in The Times reports that: The Evangelical Alliance will on Monday publish the new Ten Commandments of Blogging. Articles of Faith now
Thomas Merton’s gift
September 27, 2008
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Called to leave
September 27, 2008
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I recently left a church I love. Not for any sensationalist reason, but for the simple fact that God was calling me elsewhere and it was time for me to go. The fact that I left for the right reason didn’t make it any easier. It was a church that felt like my church, and a group of people who had quickly become my people. Nothing about leaving was easy, and the hardest part of the whole thing was having to say goodbye.
Birth is windfall
September 27, 2008
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The first time I read this parable [of the vineyard owner and his workers], I must admit it struck me as being rampantly unfair. I found myself saying, “But that is not just!” After some reflection, it dawned on me that I was starting at the wrong place.
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