2018 – Page 52 – Episcopal Cafe

How do we see the changes that are needed?

July 4, 2018 7 Comments

In this letter to the editor, five-time GC deputy Jim Papile encourages us to seek adaptive change

Statements on eradication of conversion therapy published in the U.K.

July 4, 2018 No Comments

The Government will eradicate the abhorrent practice of conversion therapy in the UK as part of a new 75-point action plan, published today (Tuesday 3 July), to tackle discrimination and improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the UK.

From the Deeps

July 4, 2018 No Comments

“Even into the depths within ourselves, God still presses upon us, behind and before, below and above, and calls us out of ourselves, out of the toxic individualism that leaves us afraid, instead calling us into community with God, and with each other.”

A letter to General Convention regarding Justice in the Holy Land

July 3, 2018 1 Comment

“Just as we rightly hear the cry of migrants seeking shelter and asylum on the borders of the US, so, too, does our conscience demand we campaign to end the detention of children and political prisoners caught in the 51-year-old vice of occupation. There is no escaping that the investment of financial resources in companies that support the infrastructure of this brutal occupation make the Church complicit in the injustices suffered by Palestinians. We offer our unceasing prayer as you discern what Jesus requires in this and all the sad injustices that face us in these times.”

Summer Prayers

July 3, 2018 No Comments

“Thanks to God who sits in the silence and dances in the joy.”

Curse and Vandalism? What is Going On?

July 2, 2018 1 Comment

“Jesus is not only vandalizing, yes, vandalizing the Temple court, and bringing himself to the attention of the Temple authorities as his time draws near, but making it quite clear that he, as Christ/Messiah, is a new way, one that doesn’t require doves and lambs to be killed on God’s altar. He is the Lamb. He brings the Dove.”