With the Supreme Court already committed to rule on a major new test of the constitutional roles of religion and government, the prospect of additional cases reaching the Court now suggests that the next Term will be a significant one for the First Amendment’s two religion clauses.
Following Christ may also mean that we are called to challenge the legality of things that oppress the marginalized, whether it’s the homeless, the hungry, or the abused.
Presume, even if just for a couple of moments, that the prophets of doom are correct in predicting that denominations – including The Episcopal Church (TEC) – are living dinosaurs, anachronisms from a bygone era that will soon die off completely. If accurate, those predictions invite, perhaps demand, a radical rather than incremental re-imagining of TEC because we have little to lose.
In 1913, Episcopal Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, Walter Harper, Harry Karstens, Robert Tatum and John Fredson (who kept the camp and dogs healthy) were the first
[at] a Christian conference in Australia four years ago, one of the speakers asked attendees to hold up their Bibles. “There were about 20,000 people there. I looked around the room, and thousands — thousands — were holding their phones and Kindles up in the air. I knew from that point that the context was going to change forever.”
It is deeply unhelpful of the Archbishop to use language which appears to suggest that the risk that those who wish to affirm gay people present is one of a lack or loss of core beliefs. That just isn’t true and is a nasty slur against fellow Anglicans.
Towards the beginning of harvest three of the thirty chiefs went down to join David at the cave of Adullam, while a band of Philistines
U.S. District Court Judge C. Weston Houck today issued an order dismissing the federal lawsuit filed by the Right Reverend Charles G. vonRosenberg that seeks to keep Mark Lawrence from representing himself as the bishop of the diocese and using its name and marks. The judge ruled that the case should be decided on the state level.
There is a whiff of transcendence in the new biopic about Steve Jobs and Jeffrey Weiss wonders what that says about how spirituality operates in our culture.
Al-Jazeera America began broadcasting on August 20th. But will Americans tune in?