2013 – Page 87 – Episcopal Cafe

Archbishop congratulates Kate & Prince William on baby’s birth

July 22, 2013 No Comments

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby offers warm wishes on the birth of England’s new prince:

How women bring out the best in men

July 22, 2013 No Comments

Adam Grant writes in the New York Times about how women influence men to be more generous:

Gene Robinson admires Chris Matthews’ approach to talking about race

July 22, 2013 2 Comments

Retired Bishop Gene Robinson writes in the Washington Post about Chris Matthews’ compelling efforts to understand for himself – and advance the understanding of others

Spitzer goes to church to ask forgiveness

July 22, 2013 2 Comments

Eliot Spitzer spent the last few days wooing voters at a number of New York City churches. The New York Daily News reports:

Even Enemies Need a Bathroom Break

July 22, 2013 1 Comment

Monday, July 22, 2013 — Week of Proper 11, Year One [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including

Philadelphia 11 priest retires

July 21, 2013 2 Comments

The Rev. Alison Cheek, one of the first eleven women ordained in The Episcopal Church, is retiring from parish work according to

We’ve come for your car

July 21, 2013 No Comments

Brian is a debt collector who repossesses cars from people with bad debts. But he’s also had money problems himself, so he knows how it feels from both sides.

Is it our own fault?

July 21, 2013 2 Comments

Almost half of the respondent in a recent poll by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life say that the declining influence

Every time I hear the opening lines of Psalm 98, I always think of the hymn “Earth and All Stars”–and, invariably, every time I mention that hymn, someone curbsides me and asks, “Isn’t that the hymn with the line about the loud, boiling test tubes?”

The Most Important Word in the Bible

July 21, 2013 8 Comments

It’s summer, and I work at a church, so I’m getting a fairly incessant barrage of emails from church youth groups all over the country asking if we have any last-minute volunteer opportunities for their coming mission trips to San Francisco. Can fifteen or twenty of their teenagers come to our food pantry some Friday and work for us? Do we know about any other service opportunities, since they’ll be here for three days and would like to do something for the homeless, or the hungry, or people in need?

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