When people think about torture, few consider the emotional and spiritual costs beginning with the victim and extending to all those involved in the process including the families.
Michael Kessler writes in the Washington Post about the changes in the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships under the direction of Joshua DuBois. Kessler says it is “refreshing to hear DuBois repeatedly speak of his office as seeking to create “responsible partnerships”.
The Detroit News reports on a man who is the music director of an Episcopal church who has been charged with sexual abuse of minors.
The National Catholic Reporter, citing a study by Giving USA Foundation, says that religious organizations reported a 5.5-percent increase in donations last year, a marked contrast from the nationwide 2-percent decline in charitable giving.
In the past fifteen years, gay marriage has increased in popularity in all fifty states. No news there, but what was a surprise to me is where the largest changes have occurred. The popularity of gay marriage has increased fastest in the states where gay rights were already relatively popular in the 1990s.
The Rev. Ed Bacon, Rector of All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, CA, met with members of the Obama administration at the White House yesterday along
My comment isn’t some ecclesiastical paraphrase of Gideon Tucker’s, “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” I am convicted that the Holy Spirit can and does work through General Convention. No, I say that because I’m a Deputy and I want for myself, and for all of us involved in Convention, all the help and all the prayer we can get.
For our ancestors who built nations and cultures; who thrived and prospered long before the coming of strangers; for the forfeit of their lives, their homes, their lands, and their freedoms sacrificed to the rise of new nations and new worlds.