The CNS reports on calls by Roman Catholic bishops that the Church must respond to expected continued rise in the price of basic food commodities. Without the Church advocating for long term changes in public policy, it’s feared that more and more people around the world will be pushed into a state of chronic hunger.
Helping returning veterans reenter civilian life has always been a challenge. It’s particularly so for veterans (and their families) these days, who might see might see multiple deployments and repeated cycles of immersion into battle and then return home for training and re-equipping. St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church’s involvement in the B.O.O.T.S. program is example of ways that this transition is being facilitated.
In today’s Washington Post, columnist Michael Gerson once again takes Sen. Barack Obama to task for his relationship with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In breaking with Wright, Gerson writes, Obama has woken from a theological slumber. But contrast Wright’s words and actions with those of Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, the leader of Gerson’s church, and ask yourself who has been sleeping.
The Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, in an op-ed piece, writes that the underlying cause of the confusion and controversy surrounding Wright’s remarks is that they are being dealt with as a sound-bite rather than being seen within the context of the african-american experience and American history.
The men and women of the Seabury Board, faculty and staff are facing the harsh truths of trying to sustain our seminaries as “mini-colleges” in an era when the rules of the theological training game have completely changed. This is not a “failure” on their part, but recognition of the future. The truth is, we are in an adapt-or-die evolutionary moment for theological education.
The last time we see Philip is in that great passage at the Last Supper, when Jesus was preparing his disciples for what was about to come. . . . In spite of all that Jesus had taught them, Philip asked for more: “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”
A gay audience member asked when he and his partner of 10 years will be able to have their relationship blessed by the church. “I don’t think it’s going to happen this year,” Jefferts Schori said, adding that the national church’s General Convention undoubtedly will revisit the issue when it meets again in 2009. “I think it certainly will happen in our lifetimes.”
Paul Bagshaw of the Modern Churchpeople’s Union blog Only Connect has created a flow chart of the disciplinary process contained in the appendix of the
He commended to the audience, as a proven remedy against anxiety, Jesus’s message in John 16:12, “There is still much that I could say to you, but the burden would be too great for you now. However, when he comes who is the Spirit of truth, he will guide you into all the truth …”
Boating season is getting under way in the northern United States, and priests on Lake Erie’s Ohio shoreline have wisely found a way to make