University of Florida’s carillon played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” yesterday during white supremacist Richard Spencer’s appearance.
It is the ‘Blessed is…takes no offense’ structure of the verse that perplexes me. I am blessed if I take no offense in what Jesus says and does?
With diocesan membership numbers in decline over the past half-century, the [Episcopal Diocese of Maryland] has closed a net 34 churches from its mid-1960s peak and merged five more, leaving a total of about 100. Another is teetering financially after the loss of a major donor.