How many Episcopal churches do you of know that are doing charity work, but aren’t doing anything to solve injustices? How many have feeding programs, but aren’t engaged in finding solutions to the trap the poor find themselves in their area.
America can still be, as Madison perceived the nation in 1785, “an Asylum to the persecuted and oppressed of every Nation and Religion.” But recognizing that deep religious discord has been part of America’s social DNA is a healthy and necessary step. When we acknowledge that dark past, perhaps the nation will return to that “promised…lustre” of which Madison so grandiloquently wrote.
Someone passing through teaches generally about social needs … but because there is no immediate reference this stuff tends not to have an impact, and tends not to be good teaching as a whole, and then we tend to do nothing about the culture as whole. When Micah says, ‘What does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love mercy,’ do you have any specific reference about what the justice needs are in your community?
1. Holy roller burns Bible. 2. In 2004, the top twenty-five hedge fund managers combined appear to have earned more than all of the CEOs
Bishop Bennison says in spite of a resolution from the House of Bishops calling for his resignation, he won’t resign:
It’s an incremental development, but the statement defending CANA/ACNA priest Don Armstrong issued on his parish’s website has been taken down without announcement. This followed
A friendly touch buffers the physiological consequences of stress.
No question facing the Anglican Communion today is more explosive that the present and future of Muslim Christian relations. Eliza Griswold’s new book, The Tenth Parallel, Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is a must read for anyone seriously wishing to explore this subject.
The human journey rightly understood is a movement of metanoia. Repentance, the usual translation of the Greek word, is an unsatisfactory one, because it too much suggests self-blame and the acknowledgement of sin, instead of hope which is its essential characteristic.