“We don’t want to mess with others who are different. That’s hard work. It takes a lot to hear somebody else’s story. We don’t want to do the hard work. We don’t want our lives to change. “But imagine if we became known as the people who are able to greet the other and say, ‘Namaste, the God in me greets the God in you.'”
In light of the substantial misinformation from Donald Armstrong about the plea bargain which he agreed to in open court last week, let me share with you our understanding of the plea agreement, a copy of which is attached in full so that you may read it for yourselves. – Lawrence R. Hitt II, Chancellor of Colorado
The gap that could squander our democracy isn’t the gap between liberal and conservative, or labor and management, or progressive and fundamentalist, or Christianity and Islam. It is the gap that troubled Jesus: the gap between a rich man who lived fabulously and a poor man.
The group’s decision to use “higher power” and “God of your understanding” instead of “God” or “Jesus Christ” and to adopt a more inclusive tone was enormously important in making the deeply spiritual text accessible to the non-religious and non-Christian, AA historians and treatment experts say.
Each individual’s, family’s, congregation’s and diocese’s giving takes on immeasurable significance in these tough times, calling us anew to unimagined opportunities to live as the holy people of God. ~ Bonnie Anderson
Some time ago I had heard of the scattered remnants of the Oneida and Mohawk Tribes who still retained the use of our Liturgy, once taught them by the British Missionaries when they resided under that government. It was my most anxious wish to see and converse with them. This wish it pleased God most graciously to gratify. I paid them a visit, setting off from Mr. Woodward’s after divine service and a sermon. We lodged at Mr. Coles’s, the last house in the white settlements.