Day: March 17, 2010

Decline of Southern Baptists may be greatly understated?

When the Baptists officially apologized in 1995 for supporting slavery they began to affiliate existing Black congregations as a way of speeding up the reconciliation. By 2008, 20% of congregations were ethnic minority and a million members were African American. This led to apparent membership increases, but was in fact an artifact of the accounting procedures.

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Glasspool receives consents

The Office of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has notified the Diocese of Los Angeles that the canonical consent process for Bishop-Elect Mary Douglas Glasspool has been successfully completed.

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A haunted St. Patrick’s Day

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. Saint Patrick, our national Apostle, our patron Saint, knew this tension throughout his life. We recall the famous opening words of his Confession: ‘I, Patrick, a sinner, and the least of all the faithful’. – Cardinal Seán Brady, Homily at the Mass for St Patrick’s Day

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An update

The Rev. Dr. Katherine Grieb has told numerous sources that she did not offer the characterizations attributed to her in a news feature of the

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Anglican theologian skeptical of secular reason

If you are going to be an atheist and nihilist, then be one. Only second-raters repeat secular nostrums in a pious guise. Such theology can never possibly make any difference, by definition. It’s a kind of sad, grey, seasonal echo of last year’s genuine black.

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Lessons from snow

For most of us, snow brings out our latent tendency to live as neighbors. It summons us to responsibility. We look after snow removal, because we don’t want people to fall. We help one another, because one person needs help and another can provide it. We don’t count the cost. We don’t stop to ask “What’s in it for me?”

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He who is mighty came

The Spirit elsewhere is a witness that even uncultivated ways have been created by the Most High—I am, then, first and foremost unlearned, an unlettered exile who cannot plan for the future. But this much I know for sure. Before I had to suffer, I was like a stone lying in the deep mud. Then he who is mighty came and in his mercy he not only pulled me out but lifted me up and placed me at the very top of the wall. I must, therefore, speak publicly in order to thank the Lord for such wonderful gifts.

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