My backyard baptism
January 21, 2013
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by M. Thomas Shaw On my day off, when I am in West Newbury, I go to a little gym in a storefront in a
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Dean Hall preaches on MLK & opposing gun violence
January 20, 2013
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As the National Cathedral, we are a visible faith community in a symbolic building. …. We represent what is best in American civic life—we stand at the intersection of faithful and civic values. It is vital that we use our visibility and our symbolic role to keep the need for gun control squarely in the public eye. …. We can make Washington National Cathedral a visible focus of our shared commitment and so help end our national tragic scourge of gun violence.
Economic inequality, one of MLK’s main concerns, is still with us
January 20, 2013
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Martin Luther King, Jr., died before he could lead the Poor People’s Campaign. Forty-five years later, poverty continues to flourish in our wealthy nation. Writing in The New York Times, Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stigliz argues that even viewed in strictly economic terms, economic inequalities have begun to undermine the promise of American life
I don’t always go to church but when I do ….
January 20, 2013
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President Obama will worship today at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. Later today he will be sworn in a private televised ceremony. (Update: Monday he
I have called you by name
January 20, 2013
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AM Psalm 148, 149, 150; PM Psalm 114, 115 Isa. 43:14-44:5 Heb. 6:17-7:10 Kirkepiscatoid. Dr. Evans recently returned from a mission trip from the Diocese
NY bishops write MTA about anti-Muslim ads
January 19, 2013
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We request that all revenues received from these and similar hate-filled ads be used to fund the display of ads such as the NYC Commission on Human Rights “From Many Countries, One City” campaign.
On PBS, Bishop Budde discusses mood of country, Obama’s first term
January 19, 2013
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So my sense is that the task now isn’t so much to speak to the middle but to, in fact, help create a middle where there it’s so much easier for us to stay in our isolated areas with people who think like us, and the president’s task and the tasks of communities of faith is, in fact, to create that common ground where we can find the compromises that we need to make to go forward.
What did the lay pension mandate mean for you?
January 19, 2013
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We’re wondering what you know about implementation of A138. Was your parish unaffected by A138? Is your parish providing lay pensions as a result of A138? Are you out of compliance? Did your parish come into compliance by reducing the number of full time lay positions? Were there church budgeting consequences of A138? Have pledges increased as a result of A138 or is A138 being paid for with cuts elsewhere in your budget?
In email solicitation, lawyer offers Title IV insurance, advice
January 19, 2013
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Following is a letter that many clergy received in the last couple of days. It is from
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