The defendants are former members of the Diocesan Corporations board of trustees and the former bishop of the diocese, all of whom have left the Episcopal Church and its Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth but continue to control significant Episcopal Church assets.
Susan Russell, President of Integrity
How does a Christian sort out the wheat from the chaff in the current health care reform debate? And where is the theological reflection as to the meaning of health care?
Kate Daily at Newsweek reviews Judy Shepard’s memoir The Meaning of Matthew.
A church which welcomes those who identify themselves as doubters is called to be a place of risk and venture in which the actual experience of questioning is explored with candor and even rigor. A community content to vaguely affirm people where they are and leave their issues unexamined and unchallenged would be just as spiritually inauthentic as a complacently orthodox community.
After thus studying again [Jesus’] life and teaching, I find it quite impossible to believe that people can be true to the things which He taught and the example which He gave and at the same time take part in war; for war is the organized destruction of our enemies and it is always accompanied by hatred and bitterness, thus necessitating an attitude of mind and course of conduct the opposite of that enjoined by Christ.