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Is celibacy the preferred Christian option?

March 17, 2009 3 Comments

Humans are inherently sexual beings, both from a biological and a biblical perspective. Humans, like most other animals, have a sexualized reproductive drive. The urge to reproduce, evolutionary biologists contend, drives all other behavior in a living organism. Freud correctly saw sex permeating every nook and cranny of human existence. From a biological perspective, intercourse, not celibacy, characterizes life.

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Bishops blogging, March 16 – House of Bishops

March 16, 2009 No Comments

The Bishops’ Spring Meeting in Kanuga is settling into business sessions now that the educational segment has been completed. Sunday evening, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori gave her impressions of the Primates’ meeting. Departing bishops, assessments were discussed, and the election of a bishop for Central Ecuador has begun.

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What torture says about America

March 16, 2009 10 Comments

Andrew Sullivan has a pretty stark way of framing an issue. In the case of the policy of using torture against enemy combatants, he compares the United States’ policy as investigated by the Red Cross to that of the Gestapo’s. It’s pretty sobering.

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Church foreclosure rate rising

March 16, 2009 1 Comment

Young congregations are struggling across this country as their physical plant’s construction debt, created when the economy was booming, is suddenly becoming a major drag on their ability to provide the programs that were fueling their growth.

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Redding story still developing

March 16, 2009 No Comments

Ann Holmes Redding, a priest argues that her subsequent conversion to Islam should not invalidate either her priestly ministry or her Christianity, is in the news again today.

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The culture wars are ending?

March 16, 2009 No Comments

Frank Rich points out some interesting implications of the lack of controversy over President Obama’s lifting of President Bush’s stem-cell research ban. He sees an

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The Braided Leather Cord

March 16, 2009 16 Comments

In our consumerist culture, and especially in the present financial crisis it won’t be easy to renew the crucial strands of our life line. But who is trying? For a single sermon commending pleasure or desire, we’ve probably heard twenty urging us to give or share because we ‘should be grateful.’ We’re in the grip of fearful Christian thinking from those bitter centuries that came to mistrust pleasure and desire.

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