The Berenstain Bears, once known for promoting family values sans religion, have broken their self imposed moratorium on declaring whether they are people of faith or no faith. Actually, it’s more complicated than that. Their sans religion titles will continue to be published by Random House. Their overtly Christian titles are being published by Zondervan
In an interview with AnglicanTV — an outlet frequented by Gafcon, Global South Anglicans, disaffected Episcopalians and schismatic Episcopalians — the Presiding Bishop of the South Cone, Gregory Venables speaks about the Anglican Consultative Council, revisions to the Anglican Consultative Council constitution and the recent punishment the South Cone received for interventions in other provinces.
Guinness stated that inclusivity is indifference to truth which is profoundly dangerous. He referred to a conversation with a Roman Catholic cardinal who noted that while the Borgia popes, one of whom fathered children with his own daughter, never denied a single issue of the creed, the Episcopal leaders in The Episcopal Church deny much of the creed and remain in post.
When talking with one of my wisdom friends recently (wisdom friend means someone with more grey hair than me) they talked about how we often don’t make room in our lives for times of transition; we don’t consciously acknowledge and attend to the emotional space of life changes, be they hopeful changes such as a new job or new opportunity or tough changes such as the loss of someone or the physical or cognitive changes in ourselves or those we love.
Love for God cannot be separated from love of neighbor. Jesus calls us to love God through our neighbor—by visiting prisoners, by hospitality to strangers, by actions that ostensibly give us no reward at the end of a long day’s work. Jesus seems idealistic at best. When we look around and see others prospering through violence or greed, most of us pay little attention to God’s love. How can we?
“Whatever we do, whatever we offer our people, let it be eloquent, let it be truthful, let it be prayer and let it be common because those are the things which are the strengths of our church”
The Rev. Margaret Lee on Oct. 16 became the first woman to be ordained a priest in the 133-year history of the Peoria, Illinois-based Episcopal Diocese of Quincy.
Rowan Williams “discusses issues facing the Anglican Communion of Churches that he leads, the state of Anglican-Roman Catholic relations, engagement with Islam and Hinduism, issues that have struck him during the India visit, and himself.”
Openly gay recruits can now join the military as a result of a federal court ruling striking down the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, but they are being warned that they can still be discharged if the ruling is overturned.
“Today we will wear purple in honor of the 6 gay boys who committed suicide in recent weeks/months due to homophobic abuse in their homes and at their schools.”