…the American Folklife Center will be collecting audio and video recordings of sermons and orations that comment on the significance of the inauguration of 2009. It is expected that such sermons and orations will be delivered at churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship, as well as before humanist congregations and other secular gatherings.
Reactions to the California Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling on property in the Diocese of Los Angeles in favor of The Episcopal Church continue, including a
The Rev. Bill Rankin, former Dean of Episcopal Divinity School, co-founded the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance in 2000 together with Dr. Charles Wilson. The alliance delivers human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and care to people in impoverished rural areas of Africa, principally in the central African nation of Malawi
In our post-modern American Christmases constructed out of fake glitz and glutinous emotional schlock, I find the vision of God moving in fresh and unexpected ways to be almost totally obscured. In Holy Baptism, we received the name of a peasant who died as a criminal. Yet we, like most who preceded us, insistently demand an exclusionary Messiah who will protect our political system from terrorists, and rapidly restore economic prosperity.
The troubled Central African diocese is still without a bishop even though the bishops that originally blocked the election of the Rev. Nicholas Henderson in November, 2005, have either died, retired or have been ex-communicated.
The first king was very young,
O balow, balow la lay,
With doleful ballads on his tongue,
O balow, balow la lay,
Gregory Cameron, architect and defender of the proposed Anglican Covenant is leaving his position as Deputy Secretary General of the Anglican Communion office in London
We are deeply saddened by the first-hand reports we are receiving from Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza about the casualties they are treating under the most horrific circumstances. Not only do they lack basic medical supplies, but with windows blown out they are even struggling to keep patients warm.
John Shiner, chancellor for the Diocese of Los Angeles called the victory, “final, conclusive, definitive” and said it “will apply to all parishes throughout the State of California.”
In many cases early emotional or physical abuse leaves a kind of coating on our hearts, a potent kind of ‘sun block’ that filters out the radiation of God’s tenderness. That’s why it is important to speak about conversion in the Church–the conversion of those who have thought along Christian lines for years and have worked hard for God—but have not yet experienced the transformation of their inner alienation into actual openness to God’s tenderness and love.