Come, ye saints, who disciplined yourselves in mountains and caves and dens of the earth, who honoured my name by continence and prayer and virginity. Come, ye maidens, who desired my bride-chamber, and loved no other bridegroom than me, who by your testimony and habit of life were wedded to me,
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Bishop Jon Bruno of Los Angeles says “be not afraid” in light today’s release of the final draft of the Covenant.
The final text of the proposed Anglican Covenant has been posted along with a video message from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Is the Bible to blame for an over-heated, over-crowded world whose fate hangs in the balance in Copenhagen? Flm-maker, Steven Ounanian says the Bible can offer remarkable insights.
The “Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion” has put out a statement saying that people should graciously avoid rocking the boat.
The sheer cliffs of the pile rise to the east of where we are standing. These are the sliced corpses of buildings. Their bones are fractured. Their guts are spilling out. Sinews of tangled cable snake through eviscerated black tissue matted in clumps. “Where are we going?” I ask. Lyndon answers, “In there.”
“What went ye out into the wilderness for to see?” (Luke 7:24). It’s Christ’s ancient question about John the Baptizer, but it always plagues my early Decembers as if I were hearing it each year for the first time. Whatever else Christmas may be, it is surely the one time of year when everyone celebrates the rurality in which I daily live. The folks in Luke’s narratives went to the wilderness looking for a prophet. But for me and my family the trek to the wilderness was a journey to a broader focus, not penitential experience. . . .
For the boy choristers of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Christmas is not about angling for video games or iPods, but parsing each note in Handel’s Messiah, performing before thousands of people — and wondering when their voices will change.
The holidays can be some of the most trying times for children of offenders . . . “Our goal is to let the children and the families know that they are not forgotten.”