For 14 years, Ian Frazier of The New Yorker has taught a writing workshop at Holy Apostles Episcopal Church in the Chelsea section of New York City. In this issue of the magazine, he writes about the church, its wonderful soup kitchen and the many people he has met through the workshop.
In a new initiative launched last week, a group of conservative Christian organizations that deny the role of human activity in global warming, call for helping the poor by advocating against environmental regulation. This coalition takes direct aim at the “creation care” movement — a different coalition of evangelicals who advocate for environmental protection.
Highlighting community outreach across the Episcopal Church and the theme “Put Your Faith to Work,” new print and video advertisements are scheduled to debut starting May 22 for a summer run in public media.
The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia has produced a cogent media release for reporters covering the May 28 hearing on the constitutionality of the law at issue in the case involving the diocese and breakaway parishes that have joined Archbishop Peter Akinola’s Anglican Church of Nigeria.
The Rev. George Clifford, a former Navy chaplain argues: Torture involves acts that should lie beyond the bounds of acceptable morality – always. …. Not only is torture antithetical to Christian principles and incompatible with Christian virtue, torture is also ineffective. In other words, the evil of torture very rarely if ever results in a greater good.
Ordinary Time [the Seasons after Epiphany and Pentecost] is the time of the Church, of the daily life of every Christian community, and of each one of us. It is the time not of a brief effort during which one hurries or even runs in order to progress on the way, but the time when one goes at a measured pace in order to cover a long distance.
We know that already, some bishops who do not take the same position as Archbishop Nzimbi have courageously registered for the conference. Yet others, maybe from fear, are attending as observers.
Christianity Today brings us two stories. First, CT presented a five day exchange between two emergent church figures: Tony Jones is the national coordinator of
The New Zealand Catholic reports, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has barred a controversial Australian bishop from speaking in his California archdiocese. In a