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Year: 2009

Presiding bishop laments latest atrocities in Sudan

January 29, 2009 No Comments

It is with great sorrow that I have received, in recent days, reports from brother bishops and other Episcopalians in the Sudan of the latest round of humanitarian atrocities committed by the so-called Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Since the beginning of this year, several parishes and villages in the Dioceses of Mundri and Ezo have fallen victim to LRA attacks that have included killings, child abductions, executions by decapitation and other unspeakable crimes.

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Mr. President, have we got a church for you

January 29, 2009 1 Comment

If there were Emmy awards for playing along with an interviewer who needs you to act silly, the Rev. Randolph Charles of Church of the Epiphany in Washington D. C. would win it for his performance in this segment from The Daily Show about President Barack Obama’s search for a new church.

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Should we pray for things?

January 29, 2009 No Comments

As Maximus Valerius tells us, “Socrates thought we should ask nothing more from the immortal gods except that they would grant us good things, because they know what is good for each individual, whereas we often ask for things it would be better for us not to obtain.”

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Another look at Narnia

January 29, 2009 3 Comments

I recently watched the first Chronicles of Narnia movie again in preparation for a talk and was struck by its own interpretation of a book I enjoyed as a child, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. For many, the appeal of the movie will be because it is Christian. But for me its appeal is in a Christian author taking seriously another reality, another world created by God, and asking what redemption might look like in that other context.

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Radical Welcome

January 28, 2009 No Comments

“How do we grow the organization?” … learning how to go from being a hospitable organization to being a totally welcoming one.

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Pope on holocaust denial

January 28, 2009 1 Comment

Church officials have been scrambling to downplay the decision announced over the weekend and portray it as a first step in ending the only formal schism in modern Catholicism. But Jewish leaders said the move threatens decades of interfaith dialogue and could harm plans for Benedict’s planned trip to the Holy Land later this year.

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