We don’t normally find ourselves passing along news of celebrations of new ministry, but Rev. Broderick’s last name is notable — she’s the sister of stage and film actor Matthew Broderick, who will be on hand Thursday to read from Genesis.
Fleeing Enforced Uniformity
An English writer maintains working respect for Rowan Cantuar, but is apt to disagree with him most vigorously. She is as likely to call him down as she is to uphold him. In other words, to use a purely English metaphor, her Archbishop is not an unquestionable royal on a pleasure-cruise; he is the Prime Minister at a raucous question-session of Parliament — a man of religious preferment and, therefore, accountability.
The “Godfather of Modern Neoconservatism,” who died Friday, didn’t take much comfort in deploying the term “God.”
It’s been a busy week on the Café Facebook page, which has become very good about showing our posts in people’s streams. It’s interesting to note that we have almost as many fans on Facebook as we do followers on Twitter, and if we were to do a serious cull of coffeeshops that follow us because we have “Café” in our name, we’d probably reverse the ratio.
Different faith communities are thinking ahead about the upcoming flu season, particularly about how to handle the H1N1 virus amid all the tactile rituals that are associated with a worshiping community.
Let vanity be unknown among you.
Let simplicity and harmony and a guileless attitude
weld the community together.