The Archive
Day: August 24, 2010
Seminarians organize to evangelize young adults
Seminarians are organizing for young adult evangelism according to Otis Gaddis III writing at
Why is anti-gay school accredited by SW Episcopal Schools Associate?
This arrangement was made to give the school time to secure other accreditation, a process than can take up to two years. SWAES did this because the association wanted to deal compassionately with faculty and students caught up in the aftermath of the 2008 decision of individuals to leave The Episcopal Church.
Back to school with prayer
Starting school is always a little nerve-racking, even if you’ve done it lots of times before …
African bishops’ concerns: poverty, disease, corruption
#africanbishops
…although “Africa groans” under the weight of conflicts, epidemics and poverty the African church was growing in an extraordinary way. It was predicted, he said, to become a continent of 673 million Christians by 2025. ++Orombi
Reconciliation work at Ground Zero
UPDATE: letter from Bishop Mark Sisk of the Diocese of New York – see below. The Rev. Anne Mallonee, vicar of Trinity Wall Street in
Creating new frameworks for parish ministry
Nuclear families—with housewives who could offer abundant volunteer labor to a church—no longer characterize the demographics that define congregational reality today. But Merritt points out that there is cause for hope: “New opportunities, tools, movements, missions, and passions cascade through our wilderness landscape bringing vital ways of organizing faithful communities, communicating prayerful longings, and seeking social justice.”
An unvaried life
An even, unvaried life is the lot of most men, in spite of occasional troubles or other accidents; and we are apt to despise it, and to get tired of it, and to long to see the world,—or, at all events, we think such a life affords no great opportunity for religious obedience. To rise up, and go through the same duties, and then to rest again, day after day,