In the 18th and 19th centuries, celebrations often consisted primarily of shooting off guns and athletic competitions. I don’t know about your family, but our Thanksgiving tradition does not involve firearms.
Given the history of the making of the Scriptures and the millennia of critical attention scholars and others have given to the stories and injunctions in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, to argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt—it is unserious, and unworthy of the great Judeo-Christian tradition
Bishop Jack Iker of Forth Worth says that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is wrong. He has not renounced his orders, and therefore should not
O God our Father, we thank you for your servant John,
who like a burning lamp and faithful to his calling,
announced the advent of our Lord
and people rejoiced for a while in his light,
The Sunday Tribune (Nigeria) interviewed Archbishop Peter Akinola “on how pro-homosexual Europeans are buying over weak churches in Africa to keep quiet, GAFCON and how
Can you tell the Christmas story for radio or video in under 30 seconds? That’s was the challenge the Church Advertising Network gave churches, youth groups and individuals this Christmas. The winning radio was set to a YouTube video below.
A million-dollar “Build Your Own Ball” inauguration package has been picked up by a business owner in Fairfax, Va. He’s also booked $600,000 worth of additional services–all to allow scores of disadvantaged people to experience the inauguration.
The Anglican Scotist is among those sick of listening to conservatives blather that the Episcopal Church does not take Scripture seriously. Some of us think that they have latched on to this issue to persuade themselves that their desire to leave the Episcopal Church is driven by something greater than their distaste for homosexuals. The Scotist takes a more academic approach.
Bishop Charles E. Jenkins III of Louisiana, saying he has struggled with the emotional trauma caused by the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2005, has announced his retirement, effective December 31, 2009. In a letter to the diocese, Jenkins, 57, wrote, “This move is based on issues of health and a concern for the mission strategy of the diocese.”
Fifty-five percent of respondents favored legally sanctioned unions or partnerships, while 39 percent supported marriage rights. Both figures are notably higher than in 2004, when 40 percent backed the former and 33 percent approved of the latter