The Archive
Year: 2013
Presiding Bishop to convene special meeting in South Carolina
From the
Happiness and Unhappiness
Here’s the Top Ten “How to be Happier” list from researcher David G. Myers:
Mark Silk: Bishop v Bishop in Rhode Island
I have seen what St. Paul describes as the fruits of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) in the married lives of two men and of two women. I have seen relationships that are loving, mutual, and monogamous and that have lasted a lifetime.
Ten other things Martin Luther King, Jr., said
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approach spiritual death.”
The Rev Luis Leon: Benediction for the inauguration
The Rev. Luis Leon, rector of St John’s Episcopal Church, Washington DC, who came to the US as a refugee from Guantanamo, Cuba, gives the
One Today: inaugural poem
…hope—a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name it—together
“I can hear the God of history saying, ‘That was not enough.'”
Why do we do it this way? We do it this way because it is our experience that the nation doesn’t move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.
Entrusting and Delegating
At some point Jesus’ ministry became too big for him to handle alone. The signs of stress appear often in Mark’s Gospel…
“I may not get there with you.”
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech.