It seems almost predestined that at some point the makers of iPhone applications would pick up on atheists going head-to-head with believers.
A quick roundup of various groups’ responses to the news yesterday, and to each other, that a policy-softening amendment on female bishops failed to pass Synod in the CoE.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Harper Lee’s novel. It spoke in fine moral tones about racism with utter clarity, and it’s never been out of print.
The Episcopal bishop of the Erie-based Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania is reaching out to women who may have been sexually abused in their childhoods by one of his deceased predecessors, asking them to contact him confidentially as part of his effort to “seek healing and reconciliation for those who have been harmed.”
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The first female bishop in Latin America, Aguilera was married to Rev. Juan Ramon de la Paz, dean of the cathedral in Havana.
Puerto Rico’s bishop David Alvarez has had a less than stellar experience with Alberto Morales.
Robbers left you half-dead on the road, but you have been found lying there by the passing and kindly Samaritan. Wine and oil have been poured on you. You have received the sacrament of the only-begotten Son. You have been lifted onto his mule. You have believed that Christ became flesh. You have been brought to the inn, and you are being cured in the church.