“The message to the most vulnerable, the victims of today’s poisonous boy culture, is being heard loud and clear: to be something other than the narrowest, stupidest sort of guy’s guy, is to be unworthy of even being alive.”
Claiming dioceses are independent in order to secure the right to sign the covenant is like claiming you own my house to secure the right to park on my street. Securing such a modest goal does not require such an ambitious claim.
Here is our weekly collection plate, offering some of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print ? Christ Church Blacksburg, VA • St. Margaret’s Lawrence, KS • Calvary Episcopal Church and Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh • Christ Church Winchester, VA • St. Thomas’ Hamilton, NY
The book argues that the human brain can only grasp a vague notion of what actually exists “out there,” and documents how the brain uses its perceptions to build useful models of the world, other people, morality, and God.
The history of Saint Mark, the Disciple and Evangelist, Archbishop of the great city of Alexandria, and first of its Bishops. . . . Now Aristobulus had a son named John. And after they had taken up their abode in the province of Palestine, near the city of Jerusalem, the child John grew and increased in stature by the grace of the Holy Ghost.
My grandmother’s family emigrated to Brazil on a cargo ship that took six months to arrive! She was raised at a coffee plantation in a region where every single white person was related to each other, and could trace their origins to the same pioneer who got rich in Brazil and brought most of the people from his village in Portugal.