You’l pardon my old Memory, and upon so sad occasions as I am come to this place, to make use of my Papers, I dare not trust my self otherwise. This is a very uncomfortable place to Preach in, and yet I shall begin with a Text of Scripture, in the twelfth of the Hebrews,
President Obama has asked the nation to observe at moment of silence at 11 am today, in honor of those killed and wounded in the shooting on Saturday in Tucson.
Greg Garrett has abstracted seven popular-culture properties from 2010 that made a real difference in the world of publicly lived theology.
“I’m coming to the conclusion that the problem is not any church, any pastor or any small group. The problem lives inside me.”
Alan Perry caught some interesting nuances in this flurry of documentation.
This week on Facebook, we asked if you have any end-of-holiday or Epiphany traditions of note. Several responses were around the wise men.
“The question is whether Saturday’s shooting marks the logical end point of such a moment — or rather the beginning of a terrifying new one.”
Father Alberto Cutié is the lone Episcopalian on the list. Who do you think ought to be on a similar list of just Episcopal leaders who “tweet”?
Once I lay in darkness and in the depths of night and was tossed to and fro in the waves of the turbulent world, uncertain of the correct way to go, ignorant of my true life and a stranger to the light of truth. At that time and on account of the life I then led, it seemed difficult to believe what divine mercy promised for my salvation, namely, that someone could be born again and to a new life by being immersed in the healing water of baptism.
Diana Butler Bass has written her first blog since the death of her mother last year. Diana, an Arizona native, is challenging those of us who preach to go beyond the simple bromides that are often shared the morning after a national tragedy.