General Theological Seminary in New York has successfully installed seven geothermal wells, with 15 more slated for installation. These wells will replace the fuel oil heating system and reduce the seminary’s carbon footprint significantly. But the red tape surrounding the green project has been a nightmare.
Facebook and other online platforms are becoming more prevalent in American religious culture. Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (complete with a shiny new web design) looks at the phenomenon with a particular focus on a Boston pastor’s challenge to his congregation to live by the rules of Leviticus for a month and then blog about it at their Facebook group and then looks at the pluses and minuses of online religion.
Bishop Jack Iker, who presided over the vote in the Diocese of Fort Worth to leave the Episcopal Church, has been inhibited in the exercise of the ministry in the Episcopal Church by the Presiding Bishop.
Never before, say historians, has there been this much attention on what church the president-elect will attend. As a follow-up to Time’s asking the “which church” question, today the Washington Post also examines the phenomenon of churches trying to “maneuver themselves to attract the nation’s first African American president and his family to their house of worship.”
Many people are surprised to learn that the Diocese of Haiti is the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church with nearly 100,000 members. The Presiding
God isn’t looking for a creation of puppets, whose every action God controls. God isn’t looking for robots, created to do exactly what God says. No, God has created a universe and from it He is working to build a household of members who do, who act, who unleash God’s blessings they have stored within. Each according to ability.
In a way I quite understand why some people are put off by theology. I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the R.A.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, “I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind you, I’m a religious man too. I know there’s a God. I’ve felt Him: out alone in the desert at night: the tremendous mystery.