Episcopal Life Online reports that The Rev. Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, will co-host Oprah’s Soul Series. His first appearance will
Just seven weeks into office, President Obama is being forced to confront one of the most sensitive social and political issues of the day: whether the government must provide health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.
Jesus talked about money more than anything else – the love of money, the desire for money, the lack of money, the abundance of money. Money, he knew, challenges and changes us like nothing else. Money is powerful – so powerful that something that is supposed to be useful too often just leaves us feeling used.
Saint Paul tells us that “that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual.” (1 Cor. xv., 66.) I have however reversed the order of things set forth by the apostle, and spoken of those facts first which show the spiritual claims that Haiti has upon American Christians. I come lastly to speak of the natural claims of that people upon the grateful remembrance of all patriotic American citizens.
Afterwards she could remember very little of what happened next. She heard the two, young women shouting at her. She felt the pain as they punched her and she fell to the ground. Then, her attackers were gone and Doris lay on the pavement in her own blood, slipping in and out of consciousness.
Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has the five-page document (signed by Peter Akinola) submitted by the Church of Nigeria in support of legislation that would outlaw same sex marriage, which is already illegal. It is chilling, especially the part where Akinola weighs in on just how long the prison sentences for the witnesses of gay marriages should be.
Western Civilization is on the verge of acquiring a new two-year lease on life according to reports in Entertainment Weekly.
Sports-crazed Americans may not have been looking for a way to follow the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament while supporting the Millennium Development Goals, but that didn’t stop the Rev. Mike Kinman of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation from developing one. Check it out.
From the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs: A groundbreaking report, Faith in the Balance: A Call to Action, which calls on The Episcopal Church
The Rev. Linda Maloney of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is among those featured in a report from WPTZ TV in Burlington about 185 clergy of various faiths who support a bill legalizing civil marriage for same-sex couples in Vermont.