I give my permission to the Church of St John the Evangelist, Ottawa to begin offering a rite of blessing to those same-sex couples civilly married where at least one party is baptized, utilizing the rite of blessing for civil marriages found in the Book of Occasional Celebrations, published by the Anglican Church of Canada.
Brain scans of people who believe in God have found further evidence that religion involves neurological regions vital for social intelligence.In other words, whether or not God or Gods exist, religious belief may have been quite useful in shaping the human mind’s evolution.
Brothers and sisters don’t you cry
they’ll be good times by and by
Pharaoh’s army got drownded
O Mary don’t you weep
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Douglas has accepted. I am humbled, I am honored, and I accept. #epct
Here is our weekly look at just some of the good stuff going on in The Episcopal Church.
The Diocese of Connecticut is electing a bishop today, and Karin Hamilton, the diocese’s director of communications, is keeping up at steady twitter stream at
The mainstream media is South Carolina have spilled a great deal of ink on a special convention to be held today in the Diocese of South Carolina. I am not sure why. As nearly as I can tell, the five resolutions being considered will have almost no effect on the life of the diocese or the Church.
Philosophical and scientific convention pull toward a conservative account of morality: Morality is a capacity unique to human beings. But the more we study the behavior of animals, the more we find that different groups of animals have their own moral codes. That raises both scientific and philosophic questions.
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My return, which at first had been hesitant and tentative, grew wholehearted and sure. I had come back to stay. I hoped to live here the rest of my life. And once that was settled I began to see the place with a new clarity and a new understanding and a new seriousness. Before coming back I had been willing to allow the possibility—which one of my friends insisted on—that I already knew this place as well as I ever would.