Americans believe the messages propounded from churches may just be exacerbating the issue of suicides among gay and lesbian youth.
One of the lovely things about social media is being able to see things shared. As we become more and more connected through Facebook and Twitter and other social media services, we’re apt to discover things we might not otherwise have: from a community forming to remember the VTS Chapel, to creativity in friends we didn’t know about, to new tools that make the abundance of information easier to browse and share.
News reports from Zimbabwe indicate that two Anglican bishops might be targets for assassination.
A profile on recent innovations in congregational development shows how consultants to declining churches are having to ask necessary but often heartbreaking questions.
These are the stages to freedom from self-centeredness,
to humility,
the centerpiece of the true life.
Andrew Greeley has written in final book and in it he says that Chicago Catholics like the Pope, respect the church but don’t like being told how to conduct their sex lives and think the mass is deadly dull.
Viv Groskop is not surprised that the priest whose rigidity drove her out of the Church of England is now the first to flee to Rome.
So dwell in our home that we may reflect the Spirit of the Father for whom every family is named. Bind us all into an holy fellowship; make all our worship, work and play witness faithfully to you; so that the Seminary may be a center from which light and life and love shall radiate to the four corners of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen — from the Seminary prayer
A fire, a protest, and a convention comprise our Saturday collection this week.
A hospital chapel at San Francisco General Hospital has been transformed into an open, comforting space for people of every faith…or of no faith.