Alone in the dark the heart beats the rhythm of my song.
It’s about bodies — To be a body that actually you didn’t pick. It’s incredibly important for people, and I think the challenge about church is not how to make it more relevant, how to make it more hip, cooler, or how to dispense with it entirely in this sort of über-Protestantizing impulse — “It’s just going to be me and Jesus and we’re going to have a great thing going, without anybody else.”
Courage, modesty and intellectual curiosity that can cultivate delight in daily life, and protect our liberties. ~~Philip Pullman
The Rev. Scott Gunn available online. Some suggested models for Diocesan Canons, in light of the changes to Title IV (disciplinary canons) are here and
I appreciate that report [on workers at the Church Center], but it does not dispel my ongoing concern for workers’ rights and human decency, nor does it ameliorate, in my opinion, that communication about the situation was (to say the least) very poorly handled. … will be continuing to monitor the situation and strive to support workers’ rights.
Despite the recession Fairtrade products have shown sales growth according to Ekklesia
…the medical director at Ochsner Medical Ochsner-West Bank said, the post-storm landscape of the U.S. Gulf Coast pales in comparison with the total devastation in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding region. But Laborde said he recognizes a common element in the aftermath of both disasters. “A hope that springs eternal,” he calls it.
President of the House of Deputies Bonnie Anderson receives kudos from Richmond Times-Dispatch.
… it is inconsistent to affirm the spiritual independence of the Church of England and simultaneously to deny the spiritual independence of the three small communities who seek this change for themselves.
I urge all of you to obey the word of righteousness and to practice all endurance, which you also observed with your own eyes not only in the most fortunate Ignatius, Zosimus, and Rufus, but also in others who lived among you, and in Paul himself and the other apostles. You should be convinced that none of them acted in vain, but in faith and righteousness, and that they are in the place they deserved, with the Lord, with whom they also suffered.