March 7, 2011 – Episcopal Cafe

DOMA just isn’t very good law

March 7, 2011 1 Comment

Justice Department lawyers are surely not to blame for the fact that the Marriage Act, by Judge Tauro’s count, implicates 1,138 other “federal laws tied to benefits, protections, rights or responsibilities to marital status” each one representing a way in which lawfully-married couples in five states and the District of Columbia are deprived of the same rights (and responsibilities) as their opposite-sex counterparts.

Rep. King’s hearings on Muslim extremism come under heavy criticism

March 7, 2011 4 Comments

Rep. Peter King’s hearings on what his website calls “al-Qaeda’s coordinated radicalization and recruitment of people within the American Muslim community,” begin on Thursday. The destructive, demagogic potential of these hearings has been widely noted. Yesterday both people in the streets, and people in the White House expressed their concerns about King’s plans.

Archbishop of Canterbury laments Pakistan’s blasphemy law

March 7, 2011 No Comments

“The government of Pakistan and the great majority of its population are, in effect, being blackmailed. The widespread and deep desire for Pakistan to be what it was meant to be, for justice to be guaranteed for all, and for some of the most easily abused laws on the statute book to be reviewed is being paralysed by the threat of murder.”

Are there lessons for Episcopalians in the Catholic clergy scandal?

March 7, 2011 3 Comments

Catholic ecclesiology certainly lends itself to holding sensitive information in few hands, meaning that crucial, institution-defining decisions are made by a tiny number of people, who often have an interest in minimizing the appearance that anything is wrong. What do we do to minimize the instances in which this happens in our own Church?

Is change coming to Episcopal Church governance?

March 7, 2011 4 Comments

Last week, Bonnie Anderson wrote a column for Episcopal News Service. Her essay developed ideas she had expressed in her closing remarks to the Church’s Executive Council in mid-February. These feel like important contributions made at an important moment, and we’d like to slow things down a bit today on The Lead and give them their due consideration.

The patch

March 7, 2011 4 Comments

I walked up to the altar I found the cigarette butt. It had been mashed into the top of the altar burning a hole through the linen into the wood. For some moments I was the proverbial liberal who had been mugged. I was angry with what I was seeing. I was angry about this random act of vandalism.

I am a Christian

March 7, 2011 No Comments

While we were still under arrest, my father out of love for me was trying to persuade me and shake my resolution. “Father,” said I, “do you see this vase here, for example, or waterpot or whatever?”

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DOMA just isn’t very good law

Rep. King’s hearings on Muslim extremism come under heavy criticism

Archbishop of Canterbury laments Pakistan’s blasphemy law

Are there lessons for Episcopalians in the Catholic clergy scandal?

Is change coming to Episcopal Church governance?

The patch

I am a Christian

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