2015 – Page 137 – Episcopal Cafe

The Magazine: Ritual making meaning when death meets life

March 22, 2015 No Comments

white crosses with a name and date set up on the shoulder of a busy highway, elaborate front yard arrangements of candles and stuffed animals, urban sidewalks dotted with candles and liquor bottles; these places, tributes to local death, are holy ground. But what do they mean, to those who pass by and to those who construct them? And what might the church learn from these interactive memorials?

Speaking to the Soul: The church under the cross

March 22, 2015 No Comments

Bonhoeffer imagines the church “under the cross.” So too our gospel reading for today turns our faces toward the cross and dares to reimagine what it means, just as we are being called to reimagine the Church and what it means in this time and place.

Jt Committee on Nominations Report

March 21, 2015 No Comments

The Joint Standing Committee on Nominations report contains comments by the committee on the nomination and election process and nominees for Executive Council, officers and Boards.

Interview with Bishop Libby Lane

March 21, 2015 2 Comments

Libby Lane explains how she will change the church from within – and why she can’t endorse marriage equality.

Liturgy and Music Commission report in Blue Book

March 21, 2015 No Comments

From our ongoing series leading up to General Convention 2015: The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music has issued its report for General Convention. Some

Speaking to the Soul: Ready to Hear; Ready to Speak

March 21, 2015 5 Comments

Cranmer helps us ask God to pour out both grace and mercy over us, forgiveness and blessing, the weft and warp of our lives seeking God.

Should we protect kids from Holy Week?

March 21, 2015 5 Comments

The Rev. Rhonda Waters reflects on her experience with her son and Holy Week

Tiffany Sun employs the trolley problem to reveal our biases

March 20, 2015 1 Comment

New York high school student Tiffany Sun re-examines the Trolley Problem: Tiffany said the first step to conducting her research was coming up with experimental

How a UMC church kept the homeless off church porches – without sprinklers

March 20, 2015 No Comments

Our item on a Catholic cathedral’s use of sprinklers to deter the homeless from sleeping in its doorways received attention here at the blog and

Half Of Ferguson’s young African-American men are missing

March 20, 2015 11 Comments

“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, while there are 1,182 African American women between the ages of 25 and 34 living in Ferguson, there are only 577 African American men in this age group. In other words there are more than two young black women for each young black man in Ferguson.” – Stephen Bronars

The Archive

Year: 2015