At the brink of the New Year, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington, has issued a statement of love and inclusion, condemning racism, anti-Semitism,
In this episode we wonder whether there is evidence for the emergence of a new theology of civic engagement. We also look at the politically explosive message of the Magnificat and the ways that message is suppressed and made inert.
Sister Frances Ann Carr, 89 years old, died this week, leaving only two left in a religious community that once embraced more than 5,000 Americans
a loving community in which we can be ourselves fully helps us to live into wholeness and freedom, into who we most deeply are.
Many people, stressed by the election and the seeming endless stream of beloved-celebrity deaths were happy to see the backside of 2016. And yet, 2017 doesn’t seem to be offering much joy. Religion Dispatches, though, is offering Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017; an article with concrete foundations for hopeful action.
In this last holiday mini-sode, Jordan and Luci delve into the origins of the Feast of the Epiphany
In many places hard hit by IV drug addiction, churches are offering needle exchange ministries. Of the program, one local pastor says “You can’t save somebody’s soul if they’re dead.”
Hearing the story of Jesus’s baptism, I am drawn to marvel at the miracle of that grace which calls us and claims us, too, as beloved children of God.
Episcopalians/Anglicans account for 6.5% of the 115th Congress, and 3.2% of the incoming class. We make up 1% of the general US population, according to the Pew numbers.
This is not a branch of Pentecostalism, or a development of evangelical thought, according to Horton: “It’s another religion.”