Katharine Jefferts Schori today joined His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Emory University for an interfaith summit, “Understanding and Promoting Happiness in Today’s Society.”
It sounds like the future, but it’s happening now: “cryopreservation” has yielded a baby born after developmental suspension lasting 19 years, 7 months.
Who’s retweeting the Episcopal Cafe? Lots of people. Here’s what’s afoot in our social media spaces this week.
Broadhurst’s distaste for C of E politics will come as no surprise to those who’ve watched with the least interest. In February he said on BBC’s HARDtalk that “the Anglican experiment is … over,” and a few months later he was noted as one of those planning for an ordinariate in secret meetings between three CoE bishops and advisers to Pope Benedict XVI.
There are some who think frequent Communion apt to produce too great familiarity, and consequently abate of the reverence with which we should approach the dreadful Mysteries: ’tis true, familiarity amongst men, creates many times contempt; because the more we are acquainted with one another, the more we discover our infirmities and defects, and that lessens our esteem.
In San Francisco, most of the large, established non-profits who feed the hungry have big budgets, lots of staff, lots of overhead, many government contracts and grants, and a professionalized, social-service approach. The neighborhood food pantries, on the other hand, are run very cheaply, almost entirely by volunteers, many of them poor; they don’t employ development directors or staff to do screening and intake.
The Church Times reports that the diocese of Sydney plans to proceed with plans to permit Deacons to preside at the Eucharist.
A requirement to have clients prove that they are impoverished could get in the way of the work of San Francisco area food pantries.
CNN asks whether the newfound faith of the 33 rescued miners in Chile will stick. The answer is “maybe, maybe not.”
This week’s collection highlights two congregations expanding their ministries and Massachusetts clergy speaking out this election season.