Connecting Creativity and Caregiving
A diverse group of U.S. Christian leaders has written to President Barack Obama following his historic June 4 speech in Cairo saying they stand ready to support “robust U.S. peacemaking efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
The vote is flashed up on the tote board — 198 FOR marriage equality, 176 AGAINST. The place goes berzerk! The gallery — which is close to HALF made up of young people under the age of 25 — is uncontrollable. The Speaker of the House, also a woman, doesn’t even try to stop it.
The House of Bishops Theology Committee has retained Dwight K. Schrute to help screen candidates for the secret theology committee according to interview notes leaked to Episcopal Café.
The Vision Before Us, subtitled ‘The Kyoto Report of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations 2000-2008’, records the Commission’s work of maintaining an overview of the Anglican Communion’s engagement with Christians of other traditions, and of giving encouragement and advice to the ecumenical activities of the Communion and the Provinces.
The return trip—rounding the point and heading back to the harbor—was rough. The wind came up and the current near the point worked to push them back. As the waves grew so did the uneasiness of his guests. That’s when the skipper asked one of his guests to reach into his cooler and get him a peanut butter sandwich.
We will turn for a time to the general manner of the saint’s daily contemplation and the long continued abstemiousness of his frugality: that, mounting higher and higher, we may more readily relate concisely and briefly his lofty works, and follow to the end the study of his venerable life, and explore it more precisely; and that by a just moderation of the balance Boniface may become an example for us of eternity and a manifest pattern of apostolic learning.