The perils of moral certainty
March 17, 2008
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Anthony Robinson of the Seattle Times expounds on the perils of believing in one’s own moral certainty.
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Year: 2008
Presiding Bishop preaches in Jerusalem
March 17, 2008
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Marking the annual Palm Sunday celebrations and the start of a week-long visit to the Holy Land, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached March 16
Trinity’s “third sacred space” survey
March 17, 2008
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Trinity Church, Wall Street is undertaking a survey to evaluate and improve their web-site, which they call their “third sacred space.” Trinity Church and St.
Duncan hires an attorney
March 17, 2008
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The Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh, disputes the charge that he has abandoned the Communion of the Episcopal Church and has retained an attorney to answer the charges.
United Methodists join effort to form local free clinics
March 17, 2008
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The United Methodist Church’s General Board of Global Ministries is exploring a partnership with Volunteers in Medicine, a nonprofit organization that has helped to create
March Gladness
March 17, 2008
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The brackets are set, the NCAA tournament bids are out — this year Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation invites you to add a little purpose to
Society cannot handle science
March 17, 2008
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The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury says in an interview with the Telegraph that society is ill-prepared to handle scientific breakthroughs because it
Bold responses
March 17, 2008
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The story of the woman anointing the head of Jesus with precious ointment is yet another story of conflict. The woman is immediately despised for her action. The indignant critics condemn her for senseless waste: that stuff of hers should have been donated for the relief of the poor instead of being emptied over Jesus’ head.
Still more on Sharia
March 16, 2008
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In some sense, the outrage about according a degree of official status to Shariah in a Western country should come as no surprise. No legal system has ever had worse press. To many, the word “Shariah” conjures horrors of hands cut off, adulterers stoned and women oppressed. In fact, for most of its history, Islamic law offered the most liberal and humane legal principles available anywhere in the world.
New books on resurrection
March 16, 2008
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As Christians in most of the world approach the celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection, it is startling to find three distinguished scholars, all known for scrupulous attention to theological tradition and biblical sources, agreeing that the very idea of resurrection is widely and badly misunderstood.
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