When we watch, we’re watching for signs. Signs are things we watch for because they are the leading edge of a larger reality we await. We may await recovery, rescue, or reconciliation. We may await fulfillment, recognition, or love. We long for so many things. We need signs that they are on the way, or even already present.
We’ve reported earlier on the financial difficulties that the Crystal Cathedral has been experiencing. What’s not been reported until now is that there are actually two churches that see themselves as preserving Robert Schuller’s legacy; the original church that Robert founded and a new expression that has Robert’s grandson Bobby as the driving force.
This week’s news from parish ministries around the Episcopal Church has rightly focused on the ways congregations are responding to community need especially during the
This week begins the internationally observed program of activism against gender violence. The Episcopal Church Women (ECW), the Episcopal Women’s Caucus (EWC) and the Anglican Women’s Empowerment (AWE) are all partners in this effort.
It appears that there are now ten primates (just about a third of the total number) who have indicated that they will not attend the scheduled regular meeting of the Anglican Primates (one of the “Instruments of Unity” listed in the Windsor Report).
St. Paul kept holding up a vision of a new interconnected humanity. “Bear one another’s burdens,” he said. “If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” . . . No one understood this better than C.S. Lewis’s novelist friend Charles Williams, who believed that we humans are meant to be what he called “godbearers” to each other, channels of God’s love. And he said that the deepest truth of our lives is what he called the “co-inherence,” that our lives are immersed in God. There’s no separating out God in us and us in God and you and me in each other.
The Washington Post reports on a wonderful mix of Anglican rite and adolescent verve that is the Whitechapel Guild, the group of change ringers at the all-girls National Cathedral School.
Trinity Episcopal Church in Reno, Nevada hosted the 25th Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Eve Service on November 24.
CHEFS is a ministry of Episcopal Community Services Center that trains the homeless to work as chefs in the San Francisco area.
A 14-year-old student at St. Michael’s Episcopal School, Richmond, VA is spending his Thanksgiving in Portamao, Portugal, representing the USA in the World Roller Skating Championships.