Members of the newly formed interfaith group in California called Desert Stewardship Project have taken on a mission to protect the most fragile ecosystem in their state.
Update – A spokesperson has denied she has died and says she was shot in the head at close range and is in surgery.
A grim day for America.
The Seamen’s Church Institute is one of oldest and most storied para-church ministries in the Episcopal Church. If you’ve ever done ministry in port city,
People across the United States are holding the citizens of Sudan in prayer this weekend. For many Episcopalians, the vote on partition tomorrow isn’t just a news story, it’s a matter of personal concern because of their friendship with many Sudanese.
“The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland issued a statement Wednesday saying the Rev. Donald Belcher, who now lives in Yaak, Montana, had been indicted by a Maryland grand jury on child sexual abuse charges.”
Over the course of the semester, “what do I want to do with the rest of my life” became “what does God want me to do with the rest of my life.” With this new paradigm, my heart and mind became open to new possibilities—or to what I thought were new possibilities. Upon further reflection, I have discovered that this new and exciting avenue, becoming a priest, is actually the earliest path open to me that I had ignored for years.
God always was, and always is, and always will be. Or rather, God always Is. For Was and Will be are fragments of our time, and of changeable nature, but He is Eternal Being. And this is the Name that He gives to Himself when giving the Oracle to Moses in the Mount. For in Himself He sums up and contains all Being,
Updated. Thousands of Egyptian Muslims heeded the call of leading clerics and intellectuals have who on ordinary Muslims to stand outside Christian Churches during Christmas celebrations both as an act of solidarity and to function as “human shields” against further violence against the Christian minority by extremists.
The Rev. Marshall Brown, a longtime associate rector at Truro Church, and part of the clergy team that led the parish out of the Episcopal Church and into CANA, was sacked for what appears to be immorality and conduct unbecoming a member of the clergy.
Bishop Jeffrey Lee of Chicago reminds us that the roots of the strife in Sudan are political, not religious.