2015 – Page 87 – Episcopal Cafe

End the religious tax exemption?

June 29, 2015 29 Comments

Mark Oppenheimer, who writes the Beliefs columns in The New York Times, argues for ending the non-profit tax exemption in the wake of Obergefell v.

There’s no such thing as a departed diocese

June 29, 2015 2 Comments

Resolution D056 counters episcopal polity and could undermine the church’s legal defense against schismatic groups with it’s language of “departed” dioceses and congregations

Diana Butler Bass reflects on the ministry of PB Katharine Jefferts Schori

June 29, 2015 2 Comments

Diana Butler Bass, popular Christian thinker and author, reflected on the career and legacy of outgoing PB Jefferts Schori for the Washington Post. Bass notes

Why are black churches being burned by arsonists? Why wasn’t the media talking about it?

June 29, 2015 4 Comments

Who is burning churches predominantly attended by african-american congregants? Why isn’t the media providing more coverage?

Women’s Caucus hosts “breakfast for troublemakers!”

June 29, 2015 4 Comments

Today the Presiding Bishop opened her sermon with the words: Talitha cum. Girl Get up! You’re not dead yet.” She was referring to the Episcopal Church but for many who had just come from the Episcopal Women’s Caucus breakfast, it was heard as affirmation that this group of ‘troublemakers’ (a term used by Sarah Eagle Heart, the keynote speaker at the breakfast), was not only alive and well but the focus of the Caucus is needed as much as ever.

Speaking to the Soul: hiding behind your “stuff”

June 29, 2015 No Comments

1 Samuel 10:17-27 In today’s reading from 1 Samuel, Samuel has announced to the people that Saul is to be their king, and the people

Episcopalians Against Gun Violence march in Salt Lake City

June 28, 2015 23 Comments

This morning in Salt Lake City Episcopalians Against Gun Violence gathered before Sunday Eucharist at General Convention to witness against the culture of violence in the

UPDATED: Bps of Ohio, Atlanta & E. Michigan on marriage: go ahead and celebrate

June 28, 2015 3 Comments

In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on marriage, General Convention’s debates of marriage resolutions, Bishop Hollingsworth issued these guidelines on marriage in the

Whether marriage is good enough for love

June 28, 2015 2 Comments

In the Magazine this month, we’re exploring the lived experience of marriage from within and without. In this post, Nathan Paxton looks at the problems inherent in marriage and wonders whether marriage is good enough for love.

Speaking to the Soul: chasing donkeys

June 28, 2015 No Comments

Although very few of us have actually gone out to chase cantankerous wayward donkeys, what they represent is a common occurrence in life–that whole business of thinking our focus is on a specific task in life–yet, in the end, something else happens, and it turns out that what ultimately happened was actually the true focus in the story.

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Year: 2015