Day: August 3, 2010

Finding hope in desperate times

Two large, destructive waves are building or crashing around us, perhaps inside us as well. The names of the waves are well known: the worldwide economic crisis and environmental collapse. Both waves are likely to continue to influence human history and psychology for the foreseeable future. Both waves could seem to wash away hope, as though despair were actually bedrock.

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Those with less give more

“What we find counterintuitively … is that the needy or the relatively less wealthy are actually more generous,” said Paul Piff, lead author of the study. “They are more giving toward other people (and) they care more about the needs of others in their social surroundings.”

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No Covenant please, we are Anglican

The 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion are being asked to sign an “Anglican covenant” designed to create a split between approvers and condemners of same-sex partnerships. General Synod, the Church of England’s governing body, is due to vote on it in November. In the name of preventing one change – toleration of same-sex partnerships – it proposes to turn Anglicanism into a confessional sect where everybody is told what to believe.

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The Church of Uganda speaks on anti-gay legislation

Onapito added that while the church’s position may be contrary to Western notions of fair treatment for gays, it hardly poses the desperate risk to life and freedom that gay rights advocates fear. There should be no doubt, however, that the COU wants to ensure that “sexual orientation is excluded as a protected human right.”

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An invisible institution

When the Church of England came to America, it sought to embrace all of the people, without respect to race. Despite the difficulties and unfavorable conditions the very early records of parish churches disclose the fact that babes of African descent were brought to Holy Baptism and incorporated into the Church of Christ. The children of the slaves or servant class, were diligently instructed in the Church Catechism,

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Comprehensively beautiful, not tightly consistent, Part I

We Anglicans do not have a central teaching authority or confession respectively. Just as we have dispersed authority through councils (parochial, diocesan, provincial, communion) and orders among others, we also have many authorities, by which I mean multiple sources of theological guidance, reference, lenses with differing weight and rank about which we may and do disagree among ourselves.

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