
Ashes to Go and Ashes to Stay
To linger is tempting. I know. I don’t want to give up anything, after all. But Lent is about more than giving something up. More, even, than taking something on. There are probably a thousand or more good things you could do for Lent, but unless you allow the light of the world to shine gently in your own life, you will not really be doing it right.
A private Episcopal school in Texas is being sued by a former students and his parents claiming that the student was bullied because of his race. The school, after giving one-day suspensions to the admitted bullies, is claiming that that it cannot open their records on this matter because it is a religious school.
The Gafcon Primates chose to not allow this anomaly to change the course followed since 2014… The voluntary moratorium remain(s) in place.
Over the next few weeks we will be looking at “raising people.” A healthy church will need to “raise money” each fall so that they have the financial resources to fuel their mission. Similarly, a healthy church will want to “raise people” in the spring so that they have the human resources to fuel their mission.
What does God want? Justice. When does God want it? Now.
I came to see how the Holy Spirit can work through us in the most unexpected ways, to let peace begin in small places, and maybe spread to the whole world.
I could always take a sandwich, and if I saw someone on the street corner, I could give them a sandwich. It wouldn’t be a fancy sandwich, because I do not have a lot of fancy stuff in the house, but I do have peanut butter and I do have jelly.
In discussion of how bishops are chosen in the CoE, Archbishop Welby suggests that greater representation of the Anglican Communion would be an improvement for choosing future Archbishops of Canterbury.
The water crisis in Cape Town is prompting responses from all levels of the church in South Africa