The Archive
Year: 2009
Never too late
As the deputy sheriff unlocked the cell doors and let the men out into the hall where we were locked in, the prisoners not knowing us, eyed us with suspicion. I held out my hand to Murray, and shook hands with him as the sheriff introduced us. I told him we had come to cheer and help him, and recommend to him a Friend who was his only hope now. He smiled and said, “This is new to me, I’ve never had anyone to visit me and pray with me before, and I’ve been in many prisons; but it’s too late now.
New Year’s Resolution:
have fun now!
For once, social scientists have discovered a flaw in the human psyche that will not be tedious to correct. You may not even need a support group. You could try on your own by starting with this simple New Year’s resolution: Have fun … now!
Resilience in Coping with Death
Just as meticulous observation and experiment transformed astronomy from a compendium of mythology and wishful thinking into a coherent science, the same tools are changing the psychology of loss.
Readers’ Top Ten Stories
What are your top stories in the Episcopal sphere? or other religious stories – add them here or on Twitter #10Episcopal or on our Facebook
Climate Change: are you Alarmed, Concerned, Doubtful or Dismissive
Speaking of Faith blog discusses the Yale Project on Climate Change which reports six categories of U.S residents response to climate change. A series of
Open door policy keeps people warm
A more “open door” policy will greet anyone needing a place to stay during the cold winter months ahead…
Edward Schillebeeckx, dead at 95
My concern is that the further we move away in history from Vatican II, the more some people begin to interpret unity as uniformity. ~~Schillebeeckx
A shepherd preparing for death
On Christmas Day, . . the archbishop ascended the pulpit and delivered a sermon to the people. At the end of the sermon he predicted that the time of his death was at hand, and that he would soon leave his people. And when he made this prediction, tears more than words came forth, and the hearts of those listening were also very disturbed and contrite. Throughout the whole church you would have seen and heard the tears and laments of the congregation, who murmured among themselves,
The Reach of our Comprehensiveness: Certainty, Ambiguity, or Sufficiency?
Certainty cannot become an excuse for denying the ongoing discovery of new knowledge of the things of earth, much less for refusing to consider previously unnoticed ways of grace among us. To do so is ultimately to deny the Incarnation Himself, who becomes not mere letters, but living flesh.