“This place is set apart for prayers for honouring the name of John the Baptist, the prophet of Bethany and for the praise of the most holy name of our Lord.”
Do CoE Anglicans and Methodists have what it really takes to mutually engage “the needs of the Kingdom”?
Part-time priests are increasingly appearing in churches whose budgets have necessitated staff cuts.
It’s been quiet on Facebook this week. So quiet, in fact, that I wonder if the Cafe is still showing up in your feeds what
First Dumbledore, now Jesus: Elton John thinks of the man from Galilee as gay, but says that’s just how he relates to him.
Our journey begins in an apparently unpromising way—with temptations. We do not usually think of temptations as a place to find help. But there are some temptations that stand at the entrance. There are some temptations that even to recognize as temptations and to feel the conflict of being pulled in two directions is to have found the gateway to a new path. In the very conflict, we find our world more wonderful and more dangerous than we ever before realized.
This humble, hardworking, woman (with eight kids of her own and a household filled with refugees from scattered lives) convinced me that God loved me and all creatures – great and small. I was small when this enlightened witness to Christ showed me the powerful love of Jesus, and I’ve felt great ever since. Not in pride. Not in glory. But in being included by a Gracious Lord who sent someone like Fran to find me.