Methodist leaders feel backlash over CoE unity remarks
February 21, 2010
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Do CoE Anglicans and Methodists have what it really takes to mutually engage “the needs of the Kingdom”?
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Year: 2010
Tentmakers popping up in otherwise traditional churches
February 21, 2010
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Part-time priests are increasingly appearing in churches whose budgets have necessitated staff cuts.
Sunday Social Hour
February 21, 2010
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It’s been quiet on Facebook this week. So quiet, in fact, that I wonder if the Cafe is still showing up in your feeds what
Elton John and Jesus and Homosexuality
February 21, 2010
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First Dumbledore, now Jesus: Elton John thinks of the man from Galilee as gay, but says that’s just how he relates to him.
The gateway of temptation
February 21, 2010
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Our journey begins in an apparently unpromising way—with temptations. We do not usually think of temptations as a place to find help. But there are some temptations that stand at the entrance. There are some temptations that even to recognize as temptations and to feel the conflict of being pulled in two directions is to have found the gateway to a new path. In the very conflict, we find our world more wonderful and more dangerous than we ever before realized.
The woman around the corner
February 21, 2010
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This humble, hardworking, woman (with eight kids of her own and a household filled with refugees from scattered lives) convinced me that God loved me and all creatures – great and small. I was small when this enlightened witness to Christ showed me the powerful love of Jesus, and I’ve felt great ever since. Not in pride. Not in glory. But in being included by a Gracious Lord who sent someone like Fran to find me.
Williams “deeply worried” about plight of Mideast Christians
February 20, 2010
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Rowan Williams in is Jordan today and while worshiping at the traditional site of Our Lord’s Baptism, the Archbishop expressed his grave concern at the “eroding” Christian presence in the Holy Land.
Only 1 in 5 denominations growing
February 20, 2010
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The National Council of Churches 2010 year book shows that only 5 of America’s top 25 denominations reported growth last year. The other 20 reported differing degrees of decline.
Send Bishop Duracin a birthday gift
February 20, 2010
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Today is Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin’s birthday. Bishop Duracin is the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Haiti.
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