“We have to be willing to look at things from the other person’s point of view, and we have to be willing to stretch into reconciliation even in those instances when we don’t think we did anything wrong.”
“It’s a way of saying to dominant culture, ‘We’re here.’ Nobody’s ignoring Beyoncé, and because of that, you can’t ignore black women and our contribution to the church and to society,” she continued. “This is our reality: being called the angry black woman or being called too sexual or too black. All these issues are embodied in one figure.” – The Rev. Yolanda Norton
The word, “immediately,” occurs more than twenty times in Mark’s sixteen brief chapters. There is an urgency to his proclamation of the “good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God” which has its own profound beauty.
The Episcopal News Service reports: The Episcopal Church’s decades-long process of refining its clergy discipline process will take a big logistical step forward this summer
“God our companion,
You inhabit the silence of meaningless pain
You breathe our wordless lament
You swallow the bitterness of our shock
Stay with us, Lord, and pray”
The publication of a response to the Task Force on the Study of Marriage from William Nye, Secretary General of the Archbishop’s Council in the Church of England has been stirring up responses of its own since it was highlighted by the Church Times late last week.
“I know you are with me if I just pay attention.”
Theology majors are outstanding in their field when it comes to marrying each other.
“We are grieved.” – Gafcon Primates Council
“Remember, Jesus had to chide one apostle or another every time they didn’t quite get the message. Don’t worry. God is patient.”