A video message from the Archbishop of Canterbury as the High Level Meeting to review the progress of the Millennium Development Goals begins at the UN.
Loyal Episcopalians in South Carolina ask for help. In particular, they are concerned that recent actions by their diocesan leadership as well as proposed canonical changes are attempt to alienate the diocese from the Episcopal Church and insulate the leadership from accountability.
Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia declined a request by the CANA congregations to reargue the decision of June 10, 2010. The Court’s original, unanimous ruling in favor of the Diocese stands, and the case will return to the Fairfax Circuit Court.
Professor Richard T. Hughes of Messiah College reflects on what the Bible has to say about caring for the stranger.
The New York Times reports on the new dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, The Rev. Dr. Jane Alison Shaw.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
who givest thy beloved pleasant sleep,
and to them that fear Thee to lie down safely.
Lighten our eyes,
that we sleep not in death:
deliver us from the terror by night,
How many Episcopal churches do you of know that are doing charity work, but aren’t doing anything to solve injustices? How many have feeding programs, but aren’t engaged in finding solutions to the trap the poor find themselves in their area.
America can still be, as Madison perceived the nation in 1785, “an Asylum to the persecuted and oppressed of every Nation and Religion.” But recognizing that deep religious discord has been part of America’s social DNA is a healthy and necessary step. When we acknowledge that dark past, perhaps the nation will return to that “promised…lustre” of which Madison so grandiloquently wrote.
Someone passing through teaches generally about social needs … but because there is no immediate reference this stuff tends not to have an impact, and tends not to be good teaching as a whole, and then we tend to do nothing about the culture as whole. When Micah says, ‘What does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love mercy,’ do you have any specific reference about what the justice needs are in your community?
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