Katharine Jefferts Schori on Fresh Air
October 6, 2008
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Listen to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in an interview byTerry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air.
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A conversation with Marcus Borg
October 6, 2008
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Gordon Atkinson had a conversation with Marcus Borg and in his blog, he introduces “his thinking and explain why he is such a controversial figure, certainly among conservative evangelical Christians, but for many mainline theologians as well.”
Christian militias forming in Iraq
October 6, 2008
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A new phenomenon is spreading through the Christian towns and villages of northern Iraq: Christian security forces, organized through their local churches, are manning checkpoints and working with the Iraqi police.
Re-examining Vatican II
October 6, 2008
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John O’Malley has written “A Spirit of Affirmation” which details the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, which not only modernized the Roman Catholic Church but had a profound effect on how churches of other traditions responded to the modern world and to each other.
A landmark beginning
October 6, 2008
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A statement from the President of the House of Deputies, Bonnie Anderson. The Episcopal Church spent two days in solemn observance and belated repentance for
Jefferts Schori at the National Cathedral
October 6, 2008
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Dean Sam Lloyd of the \Washington National Cathedral and the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church explore the state of the church in the twenty-first century.
Are we still in the salvation business?
October 6, 2008
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Does the church ‘mean business’? Do we accept that our main business today is with meaning, the struggle to find meaning, and the mission to help people discover the gift of meaning through the good news that has Christ at its heart? Are we still in the business of being saved and saving others? I wonder sometimes because of the negativity or indifference with which many Episcopalians react to the very concept of being saved.
Dangerous reading
October 6, 2008
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The availability of printed Bibles in the language of the common people helped bring about what has been called a “Copernican revolution” in the history of spirituality. Although statistics are notoriously unreliable, there was clearly a symbiotic relation between literacy among the laity, Protestant piety, and the reading of the printed Bible.
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