Day: February 1, 2011

Meanwhile in Tunisia…

While attention is on Egypt, another country is also facing monumental change in government. Tunisia’s revolution was in the news but has been eclipsed by

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Proposed Anglican Covenant: ill-defined, vague and unfair

Some critics of the proposed Covenant have suggested that it is tantamount to imposing a Confession on the churches of the Anglican Communion,… I disagree. It’s worse… at least with a clear Confession you know exactly where you stand. …the proposed Covenant provides rather ill-defined parameters against which any proposed action may be tested by a process that is vague, without criteria and demonstrably unfair.

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Weavers of community needed for our times

Today, the old religious and political structures have crashed all around us. In any new arrangements weavers and nurturers must be represented and their voices heard, loud and clear. No better woman than Brigit to inspire their efforts.

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Pray for Egypt

Chandler urges people of faith to pray for the Diocese of Egypt and for the nation “that somehow things will be resolved peacefully and provide a foundation on which to build for a good future. And we appreciate prayers for our church here as we at least try to fill this gap at the moment. It’s an honor and privilege for us to minister in this place at this time.”

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Opening Uncle Tom’s Cabin

To us, with our feelings and associations, such discourses as these of Bishop Meade appear hard-hearted and unfeeling to the last degree. We should, however, do great injustice to the character of the man, if we supposed that they prove him to have been such. They merely go to show how perfectly use may familiarize amiable and estimable men with a system of oppression, till they shall have lost all consciousness of the wrong which it involves.

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Hidden lives

Celtic saints are tenaciously native and local. They have, from the beginning, been a natural part of life, associated above all with the place in which they lived out their vocation. The waters of the holy well after all are the very selfsame waters that they were in the lifetime of the saint.

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