The Diocese of Virginia may be the only church council where both the treasurer and the chancellor receive standing ovations. But the longest applause came during the closing remarks of the chaplain for this year’s 214th Annual Council. Archbishop Barry Morgan, Primate of Wales. Bishop Morgan vowed he would resist an alternative North American province with “every fiber of my being.”
Young Muslims are leading the world in new ways to live together. Pew Forum reports on a group of 300 who are seeking help with combatting extremism and Religious Dispatches interviews two investigators who are looking into the discussion among Muslims and others in the virtual world.
The Washington Post’s On Faith Web site offers two new interviews with Bishop Gene Robinson. If the first, Robinson talks with Sally Quinn about Barack Obama, Rick Warren and his involvement in the “prayer wars” that surrounded Obama’s inauguration.
What we eat effects not only our health, but our planet, says Mark Bittman, food columnist for The New York Times. So are you eating morally? Listen to this NPR interview and find out.
If you visit The Lead but don’t drop in at the Cafe’s other blogs, you owe it to yourself to visit Speaking to the Soul
During my husband’s job loss in the 1983 recession, we learned useful lessons that we put into our “ NOWork Workshop” for families who wanted to survive and even thrive during those scary years. We based our coaching on a team approach to job loss that stressed the importance of maintaining one’s individuality without becoming a victim or allowing the crisis to consume the family.
A hundred years ago a baby was about to be born in the fishing village of Aberdeen on Hong Kong island. Its gender was not known. Boy babies were highly prized. At that time, in that culture, a bowl of ash could be at hand to smother unwanted new-born girls.
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