Surveys show that perhaps 70 percent of women worldwide experience domestic violence at some point in their lives, and some 5,000 women a year are murdered by family members in the name of honor.
Anti racism trainers for the Episcopal Church, Lelanda Lee (also a member of the Executive Council, representing Province VI of The Episcopal Church) and JoKatherine Holliman Page undertook a special training challenge recently in Denver for a group working for democracy in Southern Sudan.
“If the conscience of the ordained minister allows, private liturgies of blessing and support and public services of the Eucharist in thanksgiving for the covenanted, lifelong, monogamous realities of these committed relationships can be held in the churches of our diocese.” ~~ +Gulick
dewdrop of hope
slips down the thread
to the woman
with outstretched hands
If He could speak, that victim torn and bleeding,
Caught in His pain and nailed upon the Cross,
Has He to give the comfort souls are needing?
Could He destroy the bitterness of loss?
And the winner is … well, perhaps you’re tuning in tonight. Here we have ten films with ten distinct points of view and ten theologies (ranging from fluff to steak).
Some recent stories on the recovery phase of Haitian earthquake that caught our attention:
Update: Although numbers are difficult to confirm the BBC now says the number killed may be closer to 500. Much more detail is available from
Pope to retire imminently. But don’t tell anyone.