Year: 2011

Atlanta Bishop Neil Alexander to step aside in 2012

When Alexander, 57, was elected 10 years ago as the ninth bishop of Atlanta, he left behind an extensive career in theological education, including service at two Episcopal seminaries. “I am richly blessed,” he said. “These years in the Diocese of Atlanta have been a wonderful season in my vocation.”

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The literally life giving power of stories

In “Storytelling,” a team was looking for a way to provide both information and encouragement for changes in behavior for African Americans with hypertension. African Americans are more likely to have high blood pressure, less likely to get it under control, and more likely to have serious complications. The team thought of storytelling.

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Seeking truth

Whether you seek ultimate truth externally (through the propositions of Scriptures you presume to be inerrant) or internally (through the deep spiritual experiences you presume to be universal), whatever you end up with HAS to be a little wrong

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80 years old and still fighting

Our long time friend and colleague Nawal el Saadawi is, as would be expected, stalwart with the demonstrators in Tahrir Square. It is wonderful to see her spirit –now eighty, undiminished, ablaze. ~Diana L. Eck

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Ripe for change?

It is impossible to know exactly which embers spark a revolution, but it’s not so hard to measure the conditions that make a country prime for one.

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Be careful what you wish for

Civil rights attorney Brian Barnard said the law could provide a defense for the violation of a variety of laws in the name of faith. “Polygamy is the one that comes to mind, but there are other religious practices,” Barnard said. “Peyote, for example, and the other one is churches, like the Episcopal church, that give wine to minors during the sacrament.”

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Ardent attention

We are told that in Egypt there are brothers who offer up frequent prayers, but that these are very short, like arrows loosed off in rapid succession, for fear that the vigilant, alert attention, so necessary for one who prays, should be weakened or blunted if too long an interval is left between them.

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