It was still dark, but bitterly cold. February in Iraq is a miserable month, with rain and coldness seeping into every nook and cranny, making your bones cold. I put on every layer that seemed practical and necessary before putting on my bulletproof flack jacket and heading over to the convoy briefing.
Repentance itself is nothing else but a kind of circling; to return to Him by repentance, from whom by sin we have turned away. . . which circle consists of two things; which two must needs be two different motions. One is to be done with the whole heart; the other with it broken and rent: so as, one and the same it cannot be.
Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground!
Our conference showed that religion does not need to be an enemy to the cause of LGBT concerns. LGBT people have a strong sense of religion and God and values. What is at stake here in Uganda is religious freedom, human rights and minority protections. We pray that the international community will continue to stand with us. ~~Rev. Mark Kiyimba
Brian Prior, formerly vice president of the House of Deputies, was ordained and consecrated as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota this past weekend.
An extraordinary correspondence has fallen into my hands showing some of the detail of the Anglo-Catholic intrigues about their departure from the Church of England. It shows the Anglican “flying bishop” of Ebbsfleet, Andrew Burnham, conspiring with a sympathetic Roman Catholic bishop in Australia to work behind the back of the Catholic bishops here.
Based on this new MRI research, we asked the question: If your Dad can only communicate through ‘thought MRI’ like patients in this study, would you consider him alive?
Bishop Chane urged spiritual leaders to confront and end all sorts of religious extremism, including the dominance of one religion over another, or others, and domination of a nation over another.
Our post yesterday, Have we not “done the theology,” or not owned what we’ve done?, created a fair amount of comment. The most recent of
Fifty years ago, the lunch counter sit-ins began in Greensboro, N. C. Writing in the Virginian-Pilot, Denise Watson Batts describes how the movement quickly spead to Virginia, where 17-year-old Ed Rodman, now an Episcopal priest and professor at Episcopal Divinity School, found himself at the center of the storm.