News is coming in this evening about the shooting which took place this afternoon at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. The gunman was well known to police and federal authorities as a white supremacist who blamed misfortunes in his life on the “Jews”. The gunman was shot and critically wounded after shooting a guard and fatally wounding him.
“Toward a full and faithful telling: repairing the breach of slavery, segregation and racism in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta” is an initiative our diocese has begun to help facilitate the process of building stronger bridges across the racial divide within the church. This is an initiative that all churches could embrace because everyone of them is impacted by slavery, segregation and racism regardless of their members’ race.
The beat goes on on the legal front in California where today brought news of two significant property transactions.
There are — or were — three dioceses with bishops who didn’t believe in the ordination of women. Those dioceses are recovering now and excited to have women as priests. There are some parts of the communion that don’t ordain women at all, as priests or as bishops. But we’re all in conversation.
NPR’s All Things Considered broadcasts the story of how a homeless advocate, who is himself homeless, uses high tech to tell the story of what
In a column last week, Paul Krugman of The New York Times, decried the actions of Ronald Reagan as the precursor to our current national economic woes. I agree with his assessment and remember clearly the warnings that my Democratic Aunt and Uncle and Mother and Father doled at that time: “This is NOT good for America. This is NOT good for Americans.”
Part of the interest in the salvific potential of textuality resulted from the affirmation of embodiment through the incarnation. Bodies were analogous to texts, a theme already explored in the hymns of the Syriac poet Ephrem.
Bishop John Bryson Chane, retired Bishop Jane Holmes Dixon and more than 22 Episcopal priests are among the 135 religious leaders who have signed a statement supporting the recognition of same-sex marriages in the District of Columbia.