What about you, what do you think of the GOEs? Are they an effective assessment of one’s fitness for ministry? Are they merely an effective hazing ritual? Are they in need of revision? Are they just fine as they are, thank you?
Tom Ehrich, a well known nationally syndicated columnist and Episcopal priest, writes this month’s column on Vestry practices. He makes a pretty serious call for change in the way we operate.
The Office of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has notified the Diocese of Springfield that Bishop-Elect Daniel Hayden Martins has received the required majority of consents in the canonical consent process.
Two sisters, convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment are at the center of controversy now that Governor Haley Barbour decided to suspend
We’ve seen a veritable cornucopia of “top 10 lists” over the past weeks (including ours here on the Café). But there’s not been much analysis
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The Christmas Feast is already a fading memory,
And already the mind begins to be vaguely aware
Of an unpleasant whiff of apprehension at the thought
Of Lent and Good Friday which cannot, after all, now
Be very far off.
Elizabeth Seton did not live long ago and far away. She died a little over 150 years ago. New York, Baltimore, and the Maryland countryside were the setting for her work and growth in holiness. She was a wife and mother, a religious sister and educator, a woman who faced crises and setbacks which she surmounted by love, devotion, and openness to the grace of God. In proclaiming her a saint, the Church invites each of us to respond like her to the challenges in our own life.