Afterwards she could remember very little of what happened next. She heard the two, young women shouting at her. She felt the pain as they punched her and she fell to the ground. Then, her attackers were gone and Doris lay on the pavement in her own blood, slipping in and out of consciousness.
Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has the five-page document (signed by Peter Akinola) submitted by the Church of Nigeria in support of legislation that would outlaw same sex marriage, which is already illegal. It is chilling, especially the part where Akinola weighs in on just how long the prison sentences for the witnesses of gay marriages should be.
Western Civilization is on the verge of acquiring a new two-year lease on life according to reports in Entertainment Weekly.
Sports-crazed Americans may not have been looking for a way to follow the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament while supporting the Millennium Development Goals, but that didn’t stop the Rev. Mike Kinman of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation from developing one. Check it out.
From the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs: A groundbreaking report, Faith in the Balance: A Call to Action, which calls on The Episcopal Church
The Rev. Linda Maloney of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is among those featured in a report from WPTZ TV in Burlington about 185 clergy of various faiths who support a bill legalizing civil marriage for same-sex couples in Vermont.
Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has an excellent round-up of recent developments in Nigeria’s attempts to ban gay marriage–which is already illegal.
Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children.
It is easy to be thankful when everything is going well. But how to be thankful when things are not going so well? The company is on shaky ground and the job may disappear; the kids are going through a really rough time; the economy appears as unstable as it has been in many years; people we love are seriously ill or have died; the future is uncertain. What can I say to those suffering, to you, about these things in your lives?
Gregory the Great, writing over five hundred years after Paul, composed one of the first manuals on pastoral care and Christian leadership. This work, sent by Gregory to Leander of Seville, was highly praised and enjoyed a wide readership, including Alfred the Great and Charlemagne.