Protesters prevented some attendees from reaching Spencer’s event, and police made several arrests, but a broad coalition of civic and religious organizations had a different kind of counter-protest in mind.
This sleeping, this fidgeting, this tuning in and out of worship, this longing, this loving, this holding, this noticing, it’s all worship. It’s all prayer.
The Episcopal Church Executive Council Investment Committee ECIC recently adopted guidelines in response to General Convention resolution C045 (2015), Call for Investing in Clean and Renewable Energy, regarding Episcopal Church investments in fossil fuels.
Ms Scolding began her opening remarks by summarising in detail the background of the structure and workings of the Church of England; the significance of the Established Church’s being embroiled in allegations of child sex abuse; and why the diocese of Chichester had been selected as a case-study.
This is the one month a year where we are told to look inside, to beg forgiveness for things we haven’t even noticed.
Evangelism doesn’t have to be knocking on the doors of strangers nor does it require opening up a most cherished part of ourselves to potentially hostile (or worse, indifferent) strangers.
Being kind feels important to me these days. My dog and my horse are kind to me. Karma has many definitions and is generally associated with Buddhism, however I wonder about the great value it could provide to our Christian conversation.
Luci & Jordan wrap up their exploration of Ezekiel, surveying the vision of the heavenly Temple
Part of Jesus’s message that we should follow him is to allow the spirit of God to rest on us too. That is why whenever two or more of us get together the spirit of God is there with us. No sacrifice needed, no priest or bishop, and no temple either. Really, all that can go away.
It is all too easy to idolize our religion and obscure the God it is meant to point to.