Episcopal Relief and Development concentrates on local solutions: buying and hiring locally helps us to employ Haitians, get dollars circulating and boost the local economy. We are also supporting the Diocese of Haiti as it reaches out to other NGOs working in the area and gains access to increased resources. ~Abagail Nelson
Earlier in March members of the trustees’ Executive Committee had received projections of a shortfall in operating funds from a consultant retained in the connection with the search process. The projections were presented to the full board at this meeting and resulted in the decision to take immediate action.
The winners of the Washington Post Peeps Show 2010 have been announced. See the winner and finalists here or by clicking the link at the
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will offer reflections during Holy Week. The first one is setting the stage into which the Gospel of Mark
Contemporary Christianity has often failed to address the spiritual hungers of church members and seekers exploring the spiritual resources available beyond the doors of the church. This neglect has spawned a generation of what Kent Ira Groff calls “spiritual orphans,” people who have little or no knowledge or attachment to traditional religious institutions.
Householder God
makes a down payment on us,
trusting us to become a home.
The uncontrolled nature of social media can be unsettling and the redistribution of authority that ensues is downright revolutionary. When the opinion of a little ol’ individual like me can appear next to one from bishop (as it could in Twitter) we are certainly living into a new paradigm.
I was dreaming that I was treading the streets of the Holy City, pottering about like a tourist. In my wandering I came upon the museum of that city of our dream. I went in, and a courteous attendant conducted me around. There was some old armour there, much bruised with battle. Many things were conspicuous by their absence. I saw nothing of Alexander’s, nor of Napoleon’s.