The social bonds of rural communities in Iowa…including churches…are crumbling. Here is how some communities in Iowa are responding.
Here is a round up of news reports from The Church Times and elsewhere about the Primates meeting last week.
This weeks review is “The Big Short;” a film whose biggest star is Greed.
Betsy, Greg, Liz, and Michelle discuss the themes of revenge and redemption in the award-winning film The Revenant.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preaching at Trinity, Wall Street, at the opening of the 2016 Trinity Institute, with a sermon on Matthew 8, the story of the centurion’s servant.
Week of 2 Epiphany, Year Two [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including today’s scripture readings.] Today’s Readings for the
THE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Rt Revd Michael Curry, has emphasised the autonomy of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), in the wake of the Primates’ decision to censure his Church.
Can a Harvard study on “toxic workers” have some application in the church?
“Select Committee met with all who requested an interview, as part of a process of listening to those with experience of living with same-sex attraction, either personally or closely connected with those who would be so identified. This was a creative and deeply moving process or engagement that left no one unaffected, even those who did not take part in the actual interviews, but, as members of the Select Committee, had access to the type-scripts afterwards. Witness from parents with children searching for their true sexual identity was particularly powerful, indeed, almost overwhelming.”
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has joined his voice to the ongoing tide of reflections on the just concluded gathering of Primates by posting his reflections on Facebook. You can read the whole thing here.