Fearless Fundraising: Keeping on task
July 21, 2018
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…because the donors need to give some of their money away and need help with that task
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Year: 2018
Lot’s Wife and Me
July 21, 2018
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“Undoubtedly, she still had family there, and it’s not easy to think of the family going up in flames as the buildings, the trees, and everything that lived in Sodom and Gomorrah did. Maybe she had to look to believe what she had been told would happen, maybe even while praying that it wouldn’t. Still she turned and looked.”
United Methodists Propose Potential Ways Forward
July 20, 2018
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The United Methodist Church, like the other mainline Protestants in the U.S. in recent years, has been embroiled in the debate over human sexuality
GC79: From Resolutions to Jesus and the Gospel
July 20, 2018
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General Convention is less about resolutions (as important as some of them were), and more about renewing the ties that bind us together as the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement and reclaiming what our Presiding Bishop calls “a way of being Christian that looks like Jesus of Nazareth.”
A New Way to Fund Theological Education?
July 20, 2018
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What is the path towards sustainable clergy education?
Generation to Generation
July 20, 2018
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“God’s truth and God’s justice gets carried from person to person, from generation to generation.”
Come Unto Me
July 19, 2018
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“God yearns for relationship with us, and prayer is the medium through which this happens.”
Why pray?
July 18, 2018
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“The trouble with being a god is that you’ve got no one to pray to.” Small Gods, Terry Pratchett Does God need our prayers?
Archbishop Justin Welby speaks out on Nigerian violence
July 18, 2018
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“The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has asked the British government to support Nigeria in the short-, medium- and long-term to find a solution to the increasing violence in the country.”
B012, “Marriage Rites for the Whole Church”: Who will qualify for alternative episcopal support?
July 17, 2018
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Resolution B012, in its final language, aims to extend marriage equality to parts as yet unreached by offering alternative episcopal pastoral support to clergy and congregations whose bishops do not currently permit them to solemnize same-sex marriages. A statement from the Communion Partners of the Episcopal Church appears to turn the tables, stating that, “Congregations that maintain the traditional teaching on marriage, no matter what their diocese, have an equal claim upon the pastoral care of the church. We offer our own ministry of pastoral care in such congregations as bishops in furtherance of that goal.”
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