The Archive
Day: May 8, 2010
Gulf coast congregations prepare for oil spill cleanup
The Diocese of Louisiana is preparing resources and prayers as they wait for the oil spill to make landfall this weekend.
Arizona Acolyte Olympics
We’ve discovered something amazing out here in Arizona working with the youth. If we invite the teen council to help design an event, almost every time we put something together they change it by adding additional worship services.
Lord Jesus Christ hit by a car
We don’t actually have a “news of the weird” category here at the Cafe, but if did, this story would qualify.
Saturday Collection 5/8/2010
Our Saturday Collection this week zooms back and forth across the country with stories of liturgical revival, parishes breaking ground on new building projects, lay ministries and the ending of a long and fruitfall ministry in Oklahoma.
Church and economics, part two
There is a simultaneous glut and shortage of qualified clergy and lay religious professionals. In mainline traditions, there are two ordained persons available for every congregation. At the same time small and/or rural churches have difficultly finding qualified persons to serve their congregations.
Full text of women bishops’ legislation posted
Yesterday we linked to Ruth Gledhill’s report on the imminent release of the draft legislation that will allow the Church of England to open their episcopate to their women priests. Today the full report has been posted.
Is Uganda’s anti-gay legislation being gutted?
There is some reason to believe that that the Ugandan government has quietly moved to kill the notorious “anti-gay” legislation that we’ve covered here on the Lead through the past year.
All shall be well
The uniqueness of Julian’s writings includes her incredible optimism in the face of the cultural chaos and confusion of her day, and her ability to transcend that confusion. Her phrase “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well” is not a Pollyanna-esque blindness to reality, but the results of a deep faith that God is indeed in control of all,