Five lessons the church can learn from Facebook
January 9, 2012
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Facebook Lesson #1: It is all about the life of the participants and not the CEO.
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Must the PB be CEO?
January 9, 2012
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In commenting on an earlier item at the Cafe, Lionel Deimel asked: Why should our church be led by a bishop? I would feel very much better if our highest officer was a layperson. The Church does not exist for the benefit of clergy. Moreover, experience suggests that most mischief in the Church is initiated by bishops.
Is our deployment system broken?
January 9, 2012
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The problem is that the median tenure of a rector in the Episcopal Church is about five years. The search process takes 18 months for most places. That means that many congregations end up without settled clergy leadership for 1/3 of the time. Those delays suck the momentum away.
Beginnings
January 9, 2012
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Today may my words, my breath, and my being be one with the divine consciousness for which I was breathed into life.
Therapy almost never changes sexual orientation, proponent says
January 9, 2012
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Intellectually honest opponents of full inclusion need to acknowledge the dismal rates of success of reparative therapy.
Amanuensis and community
January 9, 2012
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Thinking about the amanuensic process of how the Bible came to be, really opens up an interesting door in how we understand it. It means that from its very beginnings, this set of books that we come to regard as the heart, soul, and backbone of our faith, were forged in relationship with each other, even if these relationships carried a power differential.
Jobless clergy seek the right fit
January 8, 2012
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Monolithic “hierarchy,” with all its labor-saving devices, can still amount to places and processes where no one really wants to learn how the sausage gets made, or how long it can take for placements to occur.
Catholic laity more supportive of gay rights than hierarchy
January 8, 2012
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A Public Religion Research Institute study says Catholics are more supportive of legal recognitions of same-sex relationships than members of any other Christian tradition and Americans overall, despite the fact that the message that they hear from the pulpit is likely to be more negative.
Single and loving it
January 8, 2012
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Being single throughout adulthood is more and more common and less stigmatized but many people–as well as workplaces and the church–don’t get that it is possible to be single and never want to get married or have children.
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