“Now it’s quite unusual if you belong to a church; I think people think you’re a bit strange,” says Nicola Ely. “Older people tend to belong, but I don’t think it’s really something for the young. I wouldn’t dream of going to anything if it’s church-based.”
Two articles on the sex talk, both from the New York Times (well, one is from a NYT blog, Freakonomics), caught our attention in the last two days.
It wasn’t so much that the members of the two churches did not get along, Hurd and Cartwright agreed. They just existed on different sides of an invisible wall that ran between one church on Swinton Avenue and the other on Southwest Third Street.
A communications initiative, launched on Ash Wednesday, which provides a new way for Episcopalians to share their connection to and appreciation for the Episcopal Church,
Part of the meaning of Easter is to be wary how we judge. We do not see things the way God does, and we are extremely likely to get things wrong.
The resurrection as it actually happened is God’s savage rebuke of all human tendency to cover up pain, all cosmetic smoothing over, all letting bygones be bygones, all conspiracies of silence, and phony cover-ups masquerading as reconciliation. “He showed them his hand and his side.”
Last night did Christ the Sun rise from the dark,
The mystic harvest of the fields of God,
And now the little wandering tribes of bees
Are brawling in the scarlet flowers abroad.