If you are using the new NIV this year you may want to adjust the script slightly. The translators have done away with the word ‘inn’ in Luke 2:7 and replaced it with ‘guest room.’ Perhaps other translators will decide to follow.
You can tell that it’s Advent out there because this week’s news coverage of the ministries of Episcopal parishes is pretty sparse. That doesn’t mean
“On the second ballot of today’s electing convention, the Rev. Rayford Ray was elected as the eleventh bishop of the Diocese of Northern Michigan.”
Episcopalians, Moravians, Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians in Winston-Salem North Carolina have all been taking part this Fall in a cooperative journey that has both physical and spiritual dimensions.
As the January date of the upcoming vote on the question of partition nears, Christians across the United States are being asked to support the people of Sudan with their prayers. This focus of prayer began in earnest this week with an event at the Episcopal Church Center in NYC which brought together representatives of a number of denominations.
There is nothing created, nothing of the first and second order, nothing lord and servant;
but there is unity and trinity—
there was, there is, and there shall be forever—
which is perceived and adored by faith—