Billy Graham, now 98 years old, prayed for eight inaugurations. He was a registered Democrat who distanced himself from both partisan politics and the religious
Last October, I flew to New Hampshire with two friends to attend workshop called Music that Makes Community, a nonprofit that holds workshops teaching paperless music. For us, it sounded like a way to bring more life and communion through music to my small congregation.
In conversation, in open and nonjudgmental listening, we link our arms, we link our lives, in love. We learn one another’s joys and sorrows. We find out what sort of help we each need and when we most need it.
The St. Louis Dispatch reports that the Choir of Men and Boys from Washington National Cathedral will be singing at the presidential inaugural next week.
The The Revd Dr Rachel Mash is the Co-ordinator for the Anglican Church of South Africa’s Environmental Network. In this essay from ACNS, she shares her hopes, rooted in her faith, for 2017 and beyond
Growing out of needs discovered in a feeding ministry, one man and his church are trying to provide transportation to those in need
The Rt Rev Dan Martins, bishop of Springfield, has offered a teaching to his own diocese on the nature of ministry that is clear, concise and offers much to consider to anyone involved or interested in ordination processes or ministry in general.
I sometimes strain to see the reign of God, the “yeast action,” at work in my country these days. Even many who name themselves Christian incarnate values of denigration, domination, greed, division, baseness, and every form of oppression, mostly notably racism.
One priest tells the story of a man who broke into church to pray – and another replies with the story of a church that
JTA reports, “There has been an increase in the United States in reports of threats and vandalism on Jewish property in the wake of the presidential election.”