
No Need to Rush
“I am convinced that God cares far less about any particular position I hold than she does about the way I engage the people around me.”
“I am convinced that God cares far less about any particular position I hold than she does about the way I engage the people around me.”
The Reverend Thomas Keating, the Catholic priest who spent years working on the devotion of centering prayer, has died at the age of 95 in the monastery where he once served as abbot.
In the Episcopal Church’s statement about this transition, Episcopal Service Corps board president Jason Sierra spoke of looking toward new ways of ministry, saying, “At our recent gathering, the board, program directors, and various stakeholders discerned that the resources, expertise, and network of the Episcopal Church’s Faith Formation Department, working in an innovative partnership with our program directors, will help unleash new visions and possibilities for ministry with young adults.”
“My almost 4-year-old has fierce emotions. It comes with the age and all the feelings that are welling up in her. It comes with not being able to adequately express what she’s feeling and what she wants. Like many young children she can go from joyful to the-world-is-ending in a matter of seconds.”
“Our hope was that we would be able to present a name to the Convention for election. We interviewed some outstanding candidates, but those bishops have concluded, through their own discernment processes, that they could not come to Virginia at this time.” – Diocese of Virginia Standing Committee president
“I don’t think it is enough to talk about hate crimes. These are higher crimes, somehow more deeply embedded in the social fabric.”
“Jesus was a rebel. That is that lens through which much modern theology has been based, especially the Liberation Theology that came out of Central America, and geo-political theology which situates the Gospels in their own time and society. “
There has never been a greater need for Jesus and his love. We see it all around us. We can see the hatred, mistrust, and divisions. We can feel the fear.
Pittsburgh bishop Dorsey McConnell responds to the attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh that left eleven dead
Luci and Jordan dig into Paul’s letter to his troubled congregation in Corinth