Maggi Dawn, a well respected theologian, educator and CoE priest writes that her email box has had a “stream of comments” from women in the church who are “disappointed and dismayed” by the events of “Mitregate”.
If there’s a theme this week to our Saturday collection of parish news, it’s one of prayer in response to violence.
If the Anglican Communion decides to take on an international identity rather than being a family of independent national churches, then there’s an implication that not many people have recognized.
The Northern Province of the Moravian Church, which represents the northern half of the full body of Moravians in the United States voted last night to approve the full communion agreement that the Episcopal Church approved last summer in Anaheim.
We fear physical pain, aging, dying. We fear the force of our own distress or depression. We fear being so easily bogged down, bringing no identifiable goodness into the world. Praying takes us right into the middle of these fears and opens their constant little trickle into a swift running stream, for in prayer every early effort to still our fears only intensifies them. We try all the familiar tricks—reciting familiar set phrases, psalms, hymns.