It is perhaps only more evidence for why we need ritual in our lives: that act of doing something one has done before, but, even though it’s the same thing, being able to see it as one never has before.
What Would Jesus Do? … Really? … Are you sure?
When the Rev. Torey Lightcap, in his first post of the morning, challenged Café readers to create a Facebook page welcoming Anne Rice to the
Rice’s fiction has made her the star of the niche she dominates, with many acolytes, and her ideas gain quick traction.
At the Episcopal Church in Jackson Hole we are used to “destination sacraments” – weddings, baptisms, renewals, even funerals. Several weeks ago I received an email from a woman asking if she and her two-year-old son could be baptized upon an upcoming visit to Grand Teton National Park. We often do services such as these.
The idolatry of money means that the moral worth of a person is judged in terms of the amount of money possessed or controlled. The acquisition and accumulation of money in itself is considered evidence of virtue. . . . Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.