Covenant Association, Nashville, TN was an alternative to the Religious Right and pursued a social justice agenda of desegregating the schools, advocating for the Metro Human Rights Commission and trying to end Christians’ attempts to convert Jews.
The bishops of the Episcopal Church are meeting at Camp Allen, TX. The spring meeting is more of a retreat for bishops.
…it’s not just water — it’s increased income, it’s time free from collecting water, it’s the chance for children to attend school, it’s improved health, safety, privacy, and security. It’s a life saved. It’s a family preserved. Its an entirely simple act — some might say, a human right — that triggers a restoration of dignity and a triumph of possibility.
The book explores ideas of heaven: Heaven as a real place, heaven as an idea of something beautiful and perfect but unattainable, heaven as a location somewhere, heaven as a process, heaven as a galvanizing or corrupting influence or an incentive for good behavior.
Senators hear literally every day, from bank lobbyists, a plausible story for why we need to stay with the status quo. It’s water that wears on a rock, even for committed senators. They need to hear, on a personal level, what’s happening to families. They need to be held to account.
It begins with, “How are you doing?” And while it might wander a bit, frequently it comes back to this: “I’m having a hard time with this, Chaplain; but they say that God won’t give you more than you can handle.” My initial response to this is, “Perhaps; but I often find myself wishing God didn’t have quite so much faith in me!”
In Agathangelos we find Gregory the Illuminator giving instruction, with fasting and prayer, leading up to “a new and wonderful birth in fatherly fashion, by his holy and liberal right hand; to give birth once again to everyone by baptism from water and the womb of the Spirit.” We read that he baptized the king and the people in the River Euphrates, and that the water stopped flowing: