Year: 2019

Jesus in the boat

Jesus teaches from a boat? That must have been awkward. And Peter’s response to the fish seems a little over the top. I fish occasionally and if someone gave me a tip that resulted in a good catch, I don’t think I’d make the imaginative leap to believing they were of divine provenance.

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Montgomery church removes Jefferson Davis pew

The pew was not recognized formally or dedicated to Davis’ memory until 1925. At the dedication of the pew, on Pentecost Sunday, a controversial politician and outspoken proponent of segregation from Tennessee, John Trotwood Moore, addressed the congregation. Moore had gained national attention by filibustering in Congress against an anti-lynching bill.

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Restoration

“For the survivors, confronting memories that have haunted them for years, gave them a chance to show their children and grandchildren part of their history in a way that would help them to understand where their family members had been and what they had experienced.”

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Haiti prepares for next steps

In a recent convention, the diocese of Haiti, takes steps to move forward as Bishop Duracin prepares for retirement and after an episcopal election last year failed to receive needed consents from the wider church

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Who Gathers the Outcasts

“The outsiders bring other traditions and life experience with them, and yet still choose to bind themselves to this particular God and the way of life that entails.”

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