I learned Abbey Lincoln had died as I was sitting down to write, and all other ideas for this column disappeared like smoke. I was plunged back into the experience of encountering this great African American artist.
For Temple, the incarnation of Christ brings about the realization of the ideal and the real together in history. In the incarnation, the power that creates the world and sustains it enters the world in its own forms of matter and Mind. Because the incarnate one is also the creator, the incarnation is the natural culmination of the very processes of the world itself. So Christianity “is the most avowedly materialist of all the great religions; its own most central saying is: ‘The Word was made flesh,’
Steve Thomason is a Hospice physician and an Episcopal priest and keeps the blog Uncommon Ground. He shares five “Hospice Haiku.”
The Bishop of Chile, Hector Zavala, has been elected Primate of the Province of the Southern Cone. Zavala used to be a member of the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order until he was suspended because the Southern Cone won’t repent of their border-crossing ways.
This weekend Sylvia Plath will have a plaque added to the Poet’s Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
Another piece of the HIV puzzle was found after the Rev. Robert Massie walked into the office of AIDS researcher Bruce Walker sixteen years ago and asked to become a human guinea pig.
Beginning December 31, 2010, Church Publishing Incorporated will reduce their workforce by 40% and close the Denver office.
O holy God,
as evening falls remain with us.
Remember our good deeds and forgive our failings.
Using both experimental and longitudinal designs in Eastern and Western cultures, the authors demonstrate that experimental manipulations or naturally occurring events (e.g., electoral instability) that lower faith in one of these external systems (e.g., the government) lead to subsequent increases in faith in the other (e.g., God).
The Bishop of St Asaph, the Rt Rev Gregory Cameron, who was on the committee that drew up the covenant, described the opponents as “latter-day little Englanders”. In a letter to the Church Times, he said the two groups had “turned themselves into the nearest to an ecclesiastical BNP that I have encountered.”