The Church is an antidote to the alienation and complexity so commonly felt in other areas of life. Parishes that foster intimacy and simplicity create situations and opportunities that encourage common experience and storytelling.
Dear Diocesan Family: Last night, we received the decision of the Court of Review reversing the conviction of Bishop Bennison based upon the statute of
I’d even say that they’ve become a threat to marriage itself,” he added, arguing that the idea of self-sacrifice is lost when the ceremony is “specifically designed to be all about ‘me’, about being a ‘princess for a day'”.
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I’ve been surprised how much progress we’ve actually made,” Buffett said. “We’re hoping that America, which is already the most generous society on Earth, becomes even more generous.
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Is this innocent satire, or are these individuals making a statement? Could you be a Christian and a Jedi Knight simultaneously?
Sure. When the church lost its purity under Rome, the ascetics went out into the desert to forge their relationships with God more or less alone. Jesus withdrew in order to pray. However, he did not stay there.
We who are Anglicans in this time have been handed on quite a lot. The dispersed authority and many authorities makes Anglican Christianity capable of error, open to correction, contingent in decision-making, and dependent on God. This makes us pilgrim Christians living in an eschatological tense, or perhaps better, mood, a mood that is hopeful, and thus, subjunctive, as if all things are already reconciled in Christ because Christ promises precisely this.
One of the most monstrous offences against religion is to regard Christianity as utterly unrelated to present-day life or as something eccentric and peculiar, or to regard the Church either as a hot-house or a prison. They are its worst foes who keep Christianity apart from Science, apart from Art, or apart from all manner of social and political life. They are the enemies of the Church who place a barrier between it and music, drama, poetry, sculpture, painting, or forbid any traffic with philosophy and modern thought.