Rather well-mannered, actually
May 1, 2008
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Mike Croghan, the Rude Armchair Theologian, examines a day in the life of The Lead (yesterday as it happens) and asks some pertinent quesitons about
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Methodist delegates vote to reject same-sex unions
May 1, 2008
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From the Fort Worth Star Telegram: Delegates at the United Methodist Church’s General Conference voted Wednesday to adhere to the church’s position that marriage should
A Sunni-Shiite fatwa against suicide bombing?
May 1, 2008
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High-ranking Shiite and Sunni leaders are preparing to issue a religious decree condemning suicide bombings and other forms of violence, according to an Anglican minister who has led efforts to bring the two Muslim sects closer.
The National Day of Prayer and the Religious Right
May 1, 2008
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We haven’t had a chance to keep up with the controversy surrounding the National Day of Prayer, but Frederick Clarskson of the blog Talk2Action has. He reports that: The franchise to host official, and often controversial Day- related events is held by Shirley Dobson, wife of James. The official National Day of Prayer Taskforce operates out of the HQ of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs.
The PB writes at Pentecost
May 1, 2008
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Jesus is Lord. In the same sense that early Christians proclaimed that Jesus, not Caesar, is Lord, remember that no one else – not any hierarch, not any ecclesiastical official, not any one of you – is Lord. We belong to God, whom we know in Jesus, and there is no other place where we find the ground of our identity.
Our first year
May 1, 2008
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We are celebrating our first anniversary today. We actually began operations in this incarnation on April 19, but we’ve decided that today is easier to remember, and probably represented the first day we had most of the bugs worked out. We’d like to thank everyone who has made us a part of their day, and to ask for your support, if you think we’ve earned it.
Anne Lamott meets Stephen Colbert
May 1, 2008
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Two Sunday school teachers meet to discuss God and faith from the Protestant and Catholic perspectives. Hilarity ensues.
Proof enough
May 1, 2008
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How powerful is this need to see with our own eyes, to feel, to taste, to hear, to smell. Though the aural evidence of the presence of peepers was overwhelming, a sound I’ve welcomed every spring of my life, the urge to actually see one and – better still – to hold one for a few seconds was strong. It was strong enough to compel me to get my shoes and jeans soaking wet in the chill of a spring evening.
Opening heaven
May 1, 2008
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Jesus, having fulfilled his earthly mission, went to the Mount of Olives, took leave of his mother and the disciples, and ascended from there to his Father in heaven. It was his final act on this earth, but it was an act that opens to us, his followers, endless possibilities, for Jesus did not return to the Father alone.
Tornado relief fund established
April 30, 2008
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The Episcopal Church in Southern Virginia has set up a fund for immediate relief for victims of the tornado in the Suffolk area. An initial emergency relief fund of $10,000 from the diocese is being administered through St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Suffolk, Virginia.
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