Committee members will get comments and questions as they make budget presentations to the pre-General Convention synods about to begin in each of the church’s nine provinces. A web-based comment process open to the whole church is due to be available within the week.
What I came to understand is that bullying is built out of a perverse reciprocity. What is seductive for the bully – what feeds him – is the reaction of his victim to his threats and his taunts: tears, rage, disorientation, and terror are all equally delicious. Deprived of these things, the bully goes hungry. And so I resolved to wage a campaign of starvation.
Learning to be a new parent can be a steep learning curve, like climbing Mt. Everest steep. Here are seven lessons from one new father.
When one part of the body is ill, the rest of reacts to it and tries to bring things back to normalcy. Something in disharmony does not function well, and we can’t always just ignore it and think God will fix it for us.
Can God lie? Does God lie? And did science make God honest? And in making God honest, did science take away God’s power to speak?
Leonard Nimoy has died and we shall miss him. His best known character would say “Live long and prosper.” We would say “Rest in peace
A significant number of Americans appear to believe that Christianity should be our national religion. Maybe they think that will be like having a state bird or a state song…but probably not.
Once upon a time, the baseline for American religious life was white and Protestant. Today things are more complex.
The head of a Wiltshire-based Christian charity has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a female member of staff. Patrick Sookhdeo, from the Pewsey-based Barnabas Fund, was also found to have intimidated two employees who were due to give evidence against him.
UPDATE: Malcolm Boyd has died
From Bishop Bruno: It is with a full heart that I write to notify you of the death this afternoon of the Rev. Canon Malcolm Boyd, writer-in-residence of the Diocese of Los Angeles, as a result of severe complications of pneumonia.