Over the past several days we’ve heard a lot about how the church’s leadership structures need to be more nimble: structurally, maybe, as well as intellectually and spiritually. So we offer the following meditation on what it means to be agile.
“Based on the Antichrist’s orders, our tour group was being initiated into something called ‘Citizen Change Camp.’ A main part of our ‘initiation’ was witnessing the execution and torture of people who refused to denounce their Christian faith.”
Pretty quiet this week on the social networks, if you don’t count the fact that everyone is tweeting and Facebooking about the Rally to Restore
“The Festival is hosted by Vision Forum, the Reconstructionist, Christian patriarchal homeschooling organization. Vision Forum’s President, Doug Phillips, is no minor player in conservative politics: he is the son and follower of Howard Phillips, founder of the Constitution Party.”
One of the two explosives-packed parcels recently intercepted was likely bound for Or Chadash, a Chicago-based Jewish congregation that’s known for its openness to the
He tried his hand as a businessman, as a soldier, as a man of decadent leisure. But here, with a beggar asking for a mere few coins, Francis was confronted with the greatest choice of all: how to best help the lost and forgotten among us
Zacchaeus must be praised. His riches were unable to keep him from the royal threshold. He should be greatly praised because his riches brought him to the threshold of the kingdom. From this, we understand that wealth is not a hindrance but a help to attaining the glory of Christ.
The Constitution comes directly from the government instituted by Moses when he led the Children of Israel out of Egypt. That system was re-instituted in England around 450 A.D. by the Anglo-Saxon rulers Hengist and Horsa. The Founding Fathers, led by Thomas Jefferson, copied the Constitution directly from the ‘ancient constitution’ of the Anglo-Saxons.
This week’s collection brings us stories of medical ministry to people across the country struggling to find appropriate treatment, and two congregations on the west coast finding new ways to reach out and share the Good News with people in their community.
The Episcopal Church isn’t alone in responding to the plight of Episcopalians in Haiti. Other provinces of the Anglican Communion are making commitments to increase