
From pleasure to sin: BBC on sex and the church
The BBC begins a 3 part series with Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch on how Christianity has shaped western attitudes about sex, gender, and sexuality throughout history

The BBC begins a 3 part series with Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch on how Christianity has shaped western attitudes about sex, gender, and sexuality throughout history

The stone at the tomb was a silent witness; we are living stones, speaking witnesses: let us be clear, gentle, loving, peaceful – yet bold, fiery witnesses who in a dark world sing our song of light: “The Lord is risen, Jesus is alive, all creation is transformed.”
Rise and shine? More like rise and fall. At least we’re making progress.

Over the past week, gifts have begun appearing next to the hooded figure lying on a bench, identifiable only from the crucifixion marks in his feet.

Did you give up Facebook for Lent? The Revd Audrey Scanlan, Bishop-elect of Central Pennsylvania, did. On her return, she offered some reflections via a
From the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church: The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites applications from individual scholars and academic and ecclesiastical groups

John 20:19-31 Lucky Thomas, he literally got hands-on proof to bolster his faith. We will have to wait a little longer for that awesome experience.

Rev. Winnie Varghese takes death from the abstract to the real-world in her Holy Week services at St Mark’s in the Bowery. What other examples of unjust death can churches use to contextualize and contemporize the Gospel?

Did you watch the American premiere of Wolf Hall? Did it hold up to the books?

Matthew and Monte Vine talk with Diane Rehm about the difficulties their family experienced when Matthew told Monte and his mother that he was attracted to other men. Together, the father and son started studying the Bible together, and the results of their study led Matthew to write and publish a book, “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships”.