Currently the Episcopal Church cannot join broad interfaith movements such as Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence because neither General Convention nor Executive Council has approved legislation on gun trafficking. Executive Council can change that.
The Holy Father has now decided that my resignation will take effect today, 25 February 2013 – Cardinal Keith O’Brien, senior Catholic Catholic in Great Britain.
First, in this little epilogue from the wonderful story of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well, it seems interesting that she leaves her water jar right there at the well as she returns to the city.
In our ministries, we brushed up against holiness; so do we now, in our good-byes. Now we must pull apart the strands of self and role, individual and community. Now we must confront regrets, confusion, and dislocation. Now we must figure out where and who God is at this juncture in our lives.
by Douglas J. Fisher A couple of weeks ago, the good people of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Longmeadow, MA gave me this wonderful mandala.