Spoiler Alert: The Anglican Communion is – drumroll, please – a communion. Dark predictions that a Covenant will only further promote autonomy may be ignoring the fact that that’s the way things have been for a long time.
“She likes to say that she is ‘religious but not spiritual’ — a doer whose sense of God emerges from what happens between and among people.”
This week for Social Hour, we’re wondering what you’re wishing for, and you’d like to see more of (or less of) in the coming year. And we got…
“I never thought I’d live to see the day when stuttering would be the subject of a serious mainstream movie. The condition, after all, has been coded as a joke in popular culture, one of the few disabilities considered fair game for laughs.”
“It is disappointing though not surprising that Rowan mentions marriage as a model for human solidarity but says nothing about the issue of marriage equality.”
I’ve been in the UK this Christmas. I arrived just before the snowfall that closed Heathrow for several days and just after massive student demonstrations protesting the rise in student tuition fees. Britain is considered a secular culture these days, which makes it intriguing to see how much religion appears in the media.
Is thy heart athirst to know
That the King of heaven and earth
Deigns to dwell with man below,
Yea, hath stoop’d to mortal birth?
Search the Word with ceaseless care
Till thou find this treasure there.