We start by talking about the “how” of implementing of Jesus’ vision doesn’t always unfold as we might want it to before moving onto our continuing conversation on prayer, especially penitence.
Luci and Jordan continue their look at North American saints this week with Marguerite d’Youville a French Canadian woman who founded the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal, often called the Grey Nuns of Montreal.
“Regardless, people continue learning throughout their lives. Our minds change a thousand times on things both great and small. Sometimes the changes are drastic, but more they are small. We know so much more than we did when we were six, or sixteen, or even thirty-six, and we will be wiser still when we become the elders.”
Not a word has been spoken by any bishop in the Church of England about this looming, Church-sponsored infringement of basic human rights. – Charlie Bell, Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge
“Maybe all these items, people, places, and events are not gone. They are treasures stored up for me in heaven. I can pull them down into my heart—hold them again in my memory.”
“Holy, holy, holy, the hand of the Almighty One,
that brushes away the cares of the troubled
and stands guard over those who sleep.”
In Ghana, home to a diverse array of religions, leaders of major churches have united in denouncing homosexuality as a “perversion” and endorsing legislation that would, if enacted, impose some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ policies in Africa. Among those supporting the legislation are Anglican bishops and Catholic bishops.
To repent is in some small, frayed way to unknit the fabric in which my portrait is woven in such intricate and fascinating, colourful and false threads, pulling
We, the House of Bishops representing the Anglican Church, Ghana (Internal Province of Ghana) have thrown our weight behind the anti-gay (LGBTQI+) Bill currently before the House of Parliament, Ghana. Our support is borne out of the belief that LGBTQI+ “is unbiblical and ungodly”. – Press Release
“Here is what I notice…
a stop sign
the turn of my head
to witness God’s blazing glory.”