The Pastoral Implications of Visual Literacy
This year, the Diocese of Washington’s Advent calendar, (visible at edow.org/advent) is a bit of puzzle, literally. The image of the Nativity is a brilliantly-colored children’s puzzle produced by a Sri Lankan cooperative working with SERRV International.
Our weekly look at just some of the good things going on in the Episcopal Church.
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We knew there would be trouble right from the start when the rabbi said he would not perform our marriage on campus because the Columbia University chapel has “Christian windows.” But we did not anticipate that during the wedding my mother, a recent convert to Roman Catholicism, would stand outside crying and try to keep people from entering because, she explained, the chapel “was not consecrated.”
Where, would you say, does God live? In heaven? On earth? Within us? All around us? When you pray, where do you imagine God?
When James Warren heard that his column describing All Saints Episcopal Church on Chicago’s North Side and their ministry to the homeless might have motivated someone to vandalize the church, he felt terrible. On visiting the parish, he was surprised at what he found.
The draconian anti-homosexuality bill currently being proposed in Uganda might be an opportunity for churches to experience some unity around issues of sexuality unless continued silence will be seen as abandonment of gays and lesbians by the Church. It is our choice.
The Irish Times reports that the Commission of Investigation into Dublin’s Catholic Archdiocese has concluded that there is “no doubt” that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up by the archdiocese and other Church authorities.
Pierre Whalon, Bishop of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe respond to the recent Apostolic Constitution issued by Pope Benedict XVI aimed at disaffected Anglicans and praised the Archbishop of Canterbury’s response to it.