The praises of God in the mouths of his Saints are not so restrained to their own particular, but that others may both conveniently and fruitfully use them; first, because the mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God’s hands;
Lately civic and religious discourse in America has taken on a certain road-rage quality according to Katherine Marshall. Recently she was able to observe an ethics consult at the Chicago Medical School. She came away believing that perhaps there is a more excellent way for us to engage one another
The Church of Pakistan adopted a strong statement decrying the violence against Christians earlier this year in Gojra. It lays the blame specifically at the feet of those who are using religion for political ends and calls for six concrete steps to be taken in response.
Bishop Alan Scarfe points out something not many others have seen in the latest initiative to include Anglican communities into a full communion relationship with the Holy See. There’s not much future in community defined as being opposed to other communities.
The silence on the part of the leadership of the Anglican Communion regarding the proposed “Anti-Homosexual” legislation in Uganda is scandalous according to Colin Coward of “Changing Attitudes”. He calls for a swift and strong response.
What I had seen as elegant and understated, they saw as effectively communicating a message of restrained grief; not the exuberant celebration of joyful transformed lives that Dia de los Muertos proclaims. So, with my “permission” the ladies set to making it a proper altar.
The Rt. Rev. C. Charles Vaché, the 7th Bishop of Southern Virginia, died at 2:30 a.m. on the Feast of All Saints in hospice care at Westminster Canterbury in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
On December 11, I will be leaving my position as canon for communications and advancement for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington to form Canticle Communications, a strategic communications partnership that will work primarily with church clients. My partner is Rebecca Wilson, whose work Café readers may remember from this summer’ s General Convention.
Death has come to reveal the faith.
It has begun with us, and it will end with us.
O you who fear death, do not fear death.
What do you do when All Saints and All Souls are the closest thing you have to a patronal feast day?