Some of the world-famous murals that adorned the walls of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti’s Holy Trinity cathedral prior to the Jan. 12 earthquake, and gave Haitians of all faiths a vision of their place in the stories of the Bible, could be preserved and possibly even restored.
The Executive Committee of the Province of New England (Province I) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Sarah Dylan Breuer as Executive Director
We breathe the same air, our food comes from the same ground and seas, and the water we have to share cycles through the same airshed, watershed, and terra firma.
The database . . . discloses those who refused to conform to the doctrine of the established Anglican Church including Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists and Quakers.
The 11-year-old congregation began with a few families using bales of hay for pews in a local feed store on Mother’s Day, 1999. Shortly afterwards, St. Matthew’s moved to its present location, a vacant chapel on a former state facility for the disabled.
No thinker, however great, can foreclose the possibility of further thought, different and contrary thought, and surely none of them would wish to foreclose it.
Gregory would certainly have little enough knowledge about this island on the fringes of his world; a few old geographies and a little hearsay might have accounted for most of it. But as Ethelbert was married to a Frankish Christian princess (Bertha, daughter of King Charibert), as Kent of which Ethelbert was king had important trading and other contacts with Gaul, particularly south of the Loire, and as Gregory also had contacts with Gaul, he clearly could have had an impression of Ethelbert’s position
In Acts, the Holy Spirit comes upon the followers of Jesus Christ gathered in his name. The sacred wind, the designing fire of the cosmos, lights them up, and they speak. Not murmur. Not hub-bub. Not babble. No, they speak … in language … about God. They’re declaring about who God is, and what God wants, and how God is going to speak through everybody to everybody.