February 14th is not only Valentine’s Day in celebration of romantic love: it’s also National Standing on the Side of Love Day, when the radical notion of accepting people for who they are gets the play it deserves.
Those who care little for their souls do not look sufficiently into their hearts. They do not consider it a sin to get angry with their neighbors without cause and do not think it a sin to lust after a woman who belongs to another provided they do not follow up their lust. But it is a great sin among those who fear God and hold their hearts in high regard.
Is it possible to feel God’s presence in the midst of horror and torture? There are numerous histories of the martyrs that claim so. There
Diocese of East Tennessee pending consents from the bishops and Standing Committees of the Dioceses of The Episcopal Church.
Colbert King reports that the school was robbed last month of presents for the students. The robber is still at large. King points out that not only is it one more act of injustice to be added to what the students already endure, it’s made worse because it was an African American man who was caught taking the gifts on the security video.
Late this week the Presiding Bishop’s office announce that two recent elections to the episcopate had received the necessary consents from the Standing Committees of
Times are changing with great rapidity in North India, and our present missionary methods are coming under a fire of criticism which cannot but be purifying and enlightening, if we are humble enough to learn what is wrong.
Trustees of Bexley Hall in Columbus, OH and Seabury Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, ratified a joint operating agreement to begin immediately and extend through June 30, 2012. During that time, a joint trustee committee will draft proposals for a permanent partnership between the two Episcopal seminaries.
Fr. Carl Gracely, the oldest active priest in the Episcopal Church, died in his sleep last Tuesday.
Derek Rawcliffe, the first Church of England bishop to be open about his homosexuality, died on February 1 at 89.