Two churches break barriers under one roof
January 6, 2010
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A new building is not always the way to go. And in this case it comes with benefits not originally sought.
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Month: January 2010
The snow shovel (or An illustration of God’s Providence)
January 6, 2010
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Providence is a tricky thing because one can easily over-define it to a point where we are simply chess pieces for God to move around the terrestrial board. To make matters trickier, one can also under-define Providence to a deistic level: God is merely an observer, having set events in motion with the winding of creation’s clock long ago. Neither of these definitions is satisfactory.
Pause to wonder
January 6, 2010
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May the blessed Kings pray for you in the Mystical Body of our Lord, may they impart to you something of the faith that sent them on their mysterious journey, and of the joy which they found when they knelt before the Lord of Heaven made Man. It seems to me that no one has ever adequately portrayed in words the beauty of this season.
I love to tell The Story…
January 5, 2010
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The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori discusses the new communication strategies and how they relate to one of our primary ministries: evangelism.
Presiding Bishop in Liberia
January 5, 2010
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The presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church of the United States, Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, blessed hundreds of children at Trinity Cathedral, where over a thousand Episcopalians gathered to welcome her on her first visit to Liberia
Hate begets hate
January 5, 2010
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The government’s venom is chilling: “Homosexuals can forget about human rights,” James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently. What makes this even worse is that three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” gays and lesbians have been widely discredited in the United States, helped feed this hatred.
Mary Daly, foremother of modern feminist theology dies at 81
January 5, 2010
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[Mary Daly’s] contributions to feminist theology, philosophy, and theory were many, unique, and if I may say so, world-changing. She created intellectual space; she set the bar high. Even those who disagreed with her are in her debt for the challenges she offered.
Gentile hands
January 5, 2010
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That Epiphany Eve in 1985, it was cold. The frost on my side of the door had become a layer of ice by the time I sat down to work at eight-thirty. I was amazed, looking toward the copse, to see Buckwheat standing in the open field rather than with the herd down by the sheltering trees. Heavy with calf, she was gargantuan in the hard light of the January morning.
Anglican Constitution is what it seems to be
January 4, 2010
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There have been some questions raised in the blogsphere in the past month about whether or not there is some sort of hidden structure to the Anglican Communion hinted at in some of its documents. The short answer? “No.”
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