Acceding to the covenant is voluntary, explained Mr. Kearon, adding that the membership in the Communion of churches will not cease or be altered if their decision-making bodies decide not to sign on to it. “The covenant will only be operative for those who agree to sign the covenant.”
The Nassar family decided there should be another option – to refuse to be enemies. So they established on their land a project called the Tent of Nations. Its overarching aims are to build bridges between people of different backgrounds and between people and land. “We wanted to move away from a circle of blame, and channel our frustration into something positive.”
When a Pew Survey studied the growing stream of people leaving the religions of their youth and eventually becoming people not connected with any religious tradition at all, few noticed the ones who grew up nonreligious and joined a church later in life.
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.
The headline in The New York Times reads: “After 341 Years, Britain Picks a Female Poet Laureate.” In other news, the Archbishop of Canterbury has authorized a network of “flying laureates” to minister to those who don’t believe that God intended women to write poetry, but who want to continue to read it.
World Labyrinth Day has been established as a day for bringing people from all over the planet together… World Labyrinth Day is a vehicle for informing and educating the public, hosting walks, building permanent and temporary labyrinths, making labyrinth-related art and more
Within two weeks, the babies became so large that they almost pushed each other out of the nest, ruffling their wing feathers as if practicing for flight. One amazing day, we watched them begin to fly one by one out of the nest. Finally only one remained, and while his parents hovered around their last baby, I remembered my mixed emotions when our younger child left home.
Let us keep the feast on the first day of the great week, as a symbol of the world to come, in which we here receive a pledge that we shall have everlasting life hereafter. Then, having passed hence, we shall keep a perfect feast with Christ, while we cry out and say, like the saints, ‘I will pass to the place of the wondrous tabernacle, to the house of God; with the voice of gladness and thanksgiving, the shouting of those who rejoice’ whence pain and sorrow and sighing have fled, and upon our heads gladness and joy shall have come to us!