The Food Stamp challenge
November 28, 2011
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“If we think we are feeding anybody on $31.50 a week, we need to think again.”
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Day: November 28, 2011
Breaking: Bishop Lawrence cleared by disciplinary board
November 28, 2011
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The abandonment canon (Title IV, Canon16) is quite specific, designating only three courses of action by which a Bishop is to be found to have abandoned the church: first, “by an open renunciation of the Doctrine, Discipline or Worship of the Church”; second, “by formal admission into any religious body not in communion with” the Church; and, third, “by exercising Episcopal acts in and for a religious body other than the Church…
Closing churches
November 28, 2011
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How does the church confront the fact that by any worldly calculus it has too many units, and this surplus appears to be driving up overhead and diminishing its capacity to spread the gospel?
An experiment in urban church building in Seattle
November 28, 2011
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The mission is daunting. We start from zero in a neighborhood new to us in a fairly broken-down old building. Our assignment from the bishop is to maintain the former church’s heart for the poor and to engage young adults as ministry leaders in the new mission work.
Top Marine: End of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell no big deal
November 28, 2011
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The Associated Press is reporting that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military is thus far causing less unrest than, say, allowing them to serve as bishops in the Anglican Communion.
Tutu, Benedict XVI among those urging action on climate change
November 28, 2011
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Religious leaders are playing a central role in the potentially pivotal UN-organized global climate conference that gets underway today in Durban, South Africa. At stake is whether industrial nations will agree on how to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
Savior of the Nations, Come!
November 28, 2011
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“Baptism is the sacrament of the extraordinary unity among humanity, wrought by God in overcoming the power and reign of death; in overcoming all that
Amazing
November 28, 2011
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An altar of stone, vows made, a ring given, the presiding priest introducing the newly married to the birds and the rocks and gawking passers-by. Bread and wine.
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