Related to keeping a rule is maintaining the balance between attachment and detachment, between activity and reflection. It is probably fair to say that, without an intentional focus on maintaining such a balance, most of us will end up out of balance most of the time.
The sin of racism distorts our biblical understanding of creation, wherein all human beings are made in the image of God. In our Christian tradition, racism blasphemes the ministry of Christ, who died for all people, not just a few.
G-dcast is an experiment. It hopes to tell the story of the whole Torah, over the course of a year, through 54 cartoon parshas. (A parsha is a Torah portion, basically a chunk of the Old Testament.)
House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson told Episcopal Life that she is committed to discussing the resolution in Anaheim, saying that the dynamics around its passage “were such that a full and thorough discussion of B033 was difficult to have.” By the time the convention meets “we will have had three years of reflection time.”
Who could have foreseen what would happen between the Mormon filmmaker and the lesbian priest? Not Douglas Hunter, even after he took a leap of faith and trained his camera on the Rev. Susan Russell. And maybe not even Russell, who had undergone a remarkable transformation from onetime suburban soccer mom to priest and outspoken champion of gay rights.
Bishop Robert Duncan, the leader of the group who are organizing themselves into the Anglican Church of North America has issued a response to the
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Whatever trouble we face, however beaten down we are by the world or our fellow human beings, Jesus has been there before us. In the words of the great spiritual: “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen. Nobody knows but Jesus.” If we but call on him, he will come and show us the way.
Pray remember what I have recommended to you, which is, to think often of God, by day, by night, in your business, and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave Him not alone.
The people of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth will meet tomorrow to continue the process of reorganizing the diocesan structure after their bishop and