Ability and Its Limits
November 22, 2009
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The Reverse Perspective by Ferris Cook
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Year: 2009
Designers, writers offer alternatives to TEC’s USA Today advertisement
November 22, 2009
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Some have responded to the ad placed by The Episcopal Church in Friday’s USA Today by providing options. Whether these were meant to address whatever correctives were deemed necessary, we’ll leave to you.
Sunday Social Hour
November 22, 2009
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Our roundup from the Cafe’s posts in social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
‘Friends’ and ‘Partners’: the latest from ERD
November 22, 2009
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The November installments of the Power of Partnerships and the Friends of Episcopal Relief & Development web series are now available online. These series feature the work of the organization’s partners and supporters worldwide and clearly illustrate the importance of their efforts in helping Episcopal Relief & Development heal a hurting world.
The sandhill cranes
November 22, 2009
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They were flying right over the developed city of Atlanta, which is nevertheless still blessed with trees and some open land. No matter how congested the Atlanta traffic becomes, and no matter how frantic our daily human lives are at this time of year, the sandhill cranes are an annual prayer flag for me. God sends them fluttering southward in the wind. They are being led and piloted by a power that has existed long before I was born.
The reign of Christ
November 22, 2009
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What in fact is Christ’s kingdom? It is simply those who believe in him, those to whom he said, “You are not of this world, even as I am not of this world.” He willed, nevertheless, that they should be in the world, which is why he prayed to the Father, “I ask you not to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.” So here also he did not say, “My kingdom is not” in this world but “is not of this world.” . . .
Rowan tweaks Benedict on unity, women’s ordination
November 21, 2009
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Updated. Reuters and the New York Times read the speech that the Archbishop of Canterbury gave at the Vatican this week as both a defense of the Anglican Communion and a mild rebuke of the Roman Catholic approach to ecumenism. The Times of London wants him to be tougher. Bishop Alan Wilson says the speech signals another kind of unity.
Vandalism against All Saints, Chicago, soup kitchen
November 21, 2009
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The vandals had apparently read a New York Times’ story, which said the the soup kitchen saved Chicago’s poor from “drowning.” The vandals knocked out one pane of a stained glass window and slid a garden hose through the opening. One third of the sanctuary sustained water damage.
The future of theological education
November 21, 2009
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An excellent conversation about the future of seminary and graduate level theological education has broken out in the comment trail of our item about the recent layoffs at the Seminary of the Southwest, including comments from Marshall Scott, Michael Russell, seminarian Jim White and Elizabeth Butler of Seabury Western.
Saturday collection 11/21/09
November 21, 2009
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Our weekly look at just some of the good work being done in the Episcopal Church.
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