Matthew Vines is continuing to engage Evangelicals on biblical interpretations concerning LGBT relationships, even meeting with Focus on the Family.
Press release from The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs: Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori invited to preach at Westminster Abbey, London [June
Faith leaders and activists speak out against the violence depicted in the latest viral video of police and young people of color. Is your church?
The Rev. Peter C. Boullata wrote a long letter explaining why he’s leaving parish ministry 12 years after entering it. Boullata describes a number of problems–from long days to the emotional weight of being in the congregation but not of it–and the stress of knowing more than you can tell the congregation, regarding hiring decisions and other administrative aspects of parish ministry.
How different was Paul in person than on paper? What about us?
The Scottish Episcopal Church will hold their annual General Synod this week, from June 11-13. Among their other tasks will be a decision to revise their marriage canons especially in light of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Scotland.
Here is a round-up of the several responses to The Task Force on the Study of Marriage.
In the Magazine this month, we’re looking at marriage and the church’s long convoluted realtionship with it. In this essay, Maria Evans, reminds us that God’s love declares itself independent of our ability to name or control it.
Is there a time you’ve reacted from your old pattern of scarcity and fear, only to have been handed back abundance and love?
“The grievance procedure is not an opportunity for a parish disaffected with its diocese for other reasons to seek a new means of expressing that disaffection or a different form of episcopal oversight.”
Sir Philip Mawer