Colin Johnson, Archbishop of the Diocese of Toronto decided to try living on the sorts of food found in the typical Toronto food bank both as a spiritual exercise and as a way of understanding better what it was like to live off the sorts of resources available to a family who have no where else to turn.
Church budgets are a bit different than the typical business’ budget and people highly skilled in business may not always be aware of the differences. And clergy and lay professionals who have worked in the church their whole careers may not be aware of the differences either.
I remember the wild northern shores from which these stories come; gray rocks; dark little forests; restless, changeful seas. There is no introduction to that land, no guide book, no cicerone. Sailing over the sombre blue of waves that never quite forget the fierce cold of winter, you approach the sheer and silent coast, tranquil, reserved, impassive alike to roaring wind and caressing sunlight.
The news of Tyler Clementi’s death brought attention to the high suicide rate among lgbt teens. Churches and clergy have been working to find additional
The question of the ordination to all orders of ministry within the Church of England has apparently blocked until recently the English church’s ability to enter in to full relationship with neighboring parishes. But the change which has led toward Unity is creating “incandescent” fury within other parts of the C of E.
Archbishop Deng Bul traveled to Lambeth Palace this week to meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury; a meeting from which they issued an appeal to people everywhere to support the southern Sudanese as a deadline for a vote on partition draws near.
Last year a Pew Research study of American opinions on support for same-sex showed that 37% were in favor of legal marriage recognition and 54% were opposed. But that study was significant because it showed movement from the year prior. This year a similar study shows that the movement is moving toward a broad majority acceptance of same-sex marriage with now 42% in favor and 48% opposed.
This is the second of a three-part article. By Donald Schell In Merchant of Venice, Shylock, Shakespeare’s imagined Jew, faces forced baptism on the terms
In the last few years, I have found myself repeatedly noting that the term “economy” itself is in its origins simply the word for housekeeping. And if this is the root or the core of its sense, we ought to be able to learn something about where the whole discourse belongs by thinking through what housekeeping actually is.
95% of Americans believe in God. But they don’t agree on what that God is like.