Year: 2008

Getting behind the Bokamoso Youth program

If you haven’t visited our Online Advent Calendar yet, let Roy Barber, a music and drama teacher at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland introduce you to the calendar and to the program in the first video on The Lead today. And if you haven’t had a chance to meet the youth of Bokamoso, click on the second video and listen to Mapitso Kinamela tell her story.

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Be a dwelling for God

Lots of people these days are seeking recollection, writing books about it, urging us to do it. It seems like a nice idea all right—until you try it. What a lot of the books don’t tell you about is the terror. To know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge may mean not knowing much of anything else.

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Advent anticipation

I love Advent. It’s our great season of eschatology, the season when we contemplate and await the in-breaking of divine power into our little worlds in a way that prefigures the great consummation in which we are fully joined into God’s reality.

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TIME: Top 10 religion stories of 2008

4. The Canterbury non-Tale. … the Lambeth Conference’s planners turned the gathering into a non-binding conversation-only affair, many conservatives boycotted it, and the Communion staggered on.

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