Now, it looks as though the Church of England’s General Synod will be examining a series of proposals backed by the Archbishops of York and Canterbury which have been described as the most radical shake-up in generations to prevent the church from going into “terrifying” decline
We want to believe that we can bury our flaws and our faults, our sins and trespasses, so deep they can never be found. When we find out how deeply we are known by the One who loves us, our response may be to flee. It’s often that way.
please don’t say you’re going to be active members after the wedding if you truly haven’t made that commitment. My experience is that if you aren’t active for at least a year before the wedding, you likely won’t be active after the wedding – although I know there are exceptions. I’d rather you be honest.
Based on the novel “Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death,” by James Runcie, who based the character, in part, on his late father, Lord Runcie, the archbishop of Canterbury in the 1980s.
Washington Post examines the Reddit thread (What do insanely poor people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about?) on why people who are poor can’t “pull themselves
All that, and oversee a diocese too? This office’s job description is what General Convention needs to debate and decide first, and then we can talk about how someone, anyone, can possibly do the job.
Isaiah 43:1-13 The baby was hardly laid in his manger when the stores were already putting up “50% OFF ALL CHRISTMAS ITEMS” and shoveling red boxes
A year of celebration marking the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta began this week in the UK. The Washington Post: Churches here are planning
One of the great civil rights questions of the day will be weighed by the Supreme Court: must all 50 states allow gay and lesbian
Rachel Held Evans interviews The Reverend Wil Gafney, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. Gafney is an Episcopal