From ENS – the Presiding Bishop speaks on Immigration today in Washington, DC [June 15, 2010] “The Episcopal Church seeks justice, dignity, and equality in
Canon Kenneth Kearon will attend the meeting of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church that begins tonight near Baltimore, the Café has learned. Kearon
Some in Israel and in Palestine and in our own government may find all that nagging from here and from around the world tiresome, but we will not go home until justice has been served. The lives and dignity and holy possibility of far too many people depend on our willingness to nap. The peace of Jerusalem and the world depends on our efforts.
New additions to the Presiding Bishop’s visit to Scotland and England from
Distinguishing the imaginative/affective conversation from the functional/equipping process allows for diverse ideas and interpretations as well as for careful organization.
But close observers would have seen there was something missing: no mitre on her head. Who could be responsible? Step forward, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, … who couldn’t stop her preaching but said she could not wear the symbol of her office, or carry a bishop’s crosier.
Perrin argued that it was Jesus’ enactment of Isaiah’s feast for all people’s, the divine banquet where God welcomed all, including the unworthy, the unprepared, the unfit, in sum all the ‘wrong’ people prompted some Jewish religious leaders and local Roman authority (for different reasons and different understanding of the threat Jesus posed) to work together in a conspiracy to stop and eventually kill him.
You must settle down and quiet yourself. Your present state if encouraged will be in the end as bad for you spiritually as physically. I know it is not easy to do. Nevertheless it will in the nature of things come about gradually and I want you to help it all you know. If you allow rapture or vehemence to have its way too much,