
It’s our special episode for the second Friday in Lent
“Louise de Marillac’s life story really wasn’t very different than our stories might be now. She put a dream aside, and by all accounts, lived a satisfying, challenging, and busy life. Yet when her husband died, mere chance re-awakened her to that old dream, and the Holy Spirit created new life out of what was once an old faded memory.”
Hollerith writes, “We find ourselves in a moment in which schools, churches, universities and others are reckoning with painful cases of abuse, assault or harassment from years past. Of all the institutions in our public life, the church must be held to the highest standards of accountability, protection and justice, particularly when it involves situations involving children or minors.”
“The incarnation of God, God’s self, he helps us to see beyond the limits of human understanding even when we cannot bear to think of hope and love. He points us to the next thing we are called to do – and then the next after that – all the while showing us that he sees our inmost thoughts and fears, and loves us – not in spite of them but including them.”
New York State Supreme Court judge today dismissed substantially all the claims in a lawsuit against the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (DFMS), the corporate name of The Episcopal Church, filed by Bishop Stacy Sauls, who was removed from his post as chief operating officer in April 2016.
In response to the United Methodist Church’s recent decision to continue to disallow the ordination and marriage of LGBTQ people of faith, Union Theological Seminary is telling the stories of its students, faculty and staff who are part of those communities.
A Season of Pod-itence and Fasting
“I was drawn into the pages. I was drawn into God’s word in a new, deeper way.”
The Anglican Communion’s Environment Network offers a set of daily challenges linked to weekly themes: plastic bottles and lids, food shopping, bathroom, kitchen, clothing and kids.