“As horrible and painful as it was, I have experienced so much growth. What we’ve gone through and the hard work we’ve put into restoring our marriage has been a powerful witness to our sons.”
Some of what makes bishop-to-be Scott Benhase tick was formed in a mission experience to Guatemala in 1977 sponsored by Fred Lamar, a chaplain in the ’70s at DePauw University who sponsored and nurtured a few thousands students on such trips over a generation. Lamar died this week.
Facebook this week was dominated by chatter over the Haiti earthquake. Our Wednesday post featuring email updates from those in the loop got a lot
Here’s a mural in an Anglican church somewhere in Port au Prince that depicts the Gospel lesson being read by most of us today – Jesus’ miracle at a wedding of Cana, turning water into wine.
I think it is the tiniest, the most intimate miracles that we find most moving and important. What event is more powerful for us, more filled with awe and hope and fear than the birth of a child? Or, how many events carry more promise for a family than a wedding; or for a community than a baptism? And how many of us have found our lives shaped profoundly by an important conversation with a teacher?
A brother said to an old man, “Abba, I go and beg the old men to speak to me about the salvation of my soul, and I do not remember any of their words, so what ought I to do? Continue to ask them, but do nothing? In truth, I am altogether in impurity.”
The pope has defended his widely ignored initiative to bring disaffected Anglicans into the Catholic Church in a way that provides insight into his definition of ecumenism.
Fans don’t realize how much work goes on behind the scenes by the Christian organizations that minister to athletes and leverage sports to reach the public with their evangelistic message
The world’s attention was rightly focused on Haiti this week, but the good work of the Episcopal Church went on quietly in this country as well.
The Very Rev Dr Gregor Duncan has been elected bishop of Glasgow & Galloway over two other candidates, including a woman, The Rev Canon Dr