If there were Emmy awards for playing along with an interviewer who needs you to act silly, the Rev. Randolph Charles of Church of the Epiphany in Washington D. C. would win it for his performance in this segment from The Daily Show about President Barack Obama’s search for a new church.
The Wall Street Journal: Federal authorities are investigating the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to see whether top church officials tried to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by priests, said a person familiar with the matter.
Associated Press columnist Tim Dahlberg says that while God may not care who wins the Super Bowl, Kurt Warner and other players at the Super Bowl sure care a lot about God.
As Maximus Valerius tells us, “Socrates thought we should ask nothing more from the immortal gods except that they would grant us good things, because they know what is good for each individual, whereas we often ask for things it would be better for us not to obtain.”
I recently watched the first Chronicles of Narnia movie again in preparation for a talk and was struck by its own interpretation of a book I enjoyed as a child, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. For many, the appeal of the movie will be because it is Christian. But for me its appeal is in a Christian author taking seriously another reality, another world created by God, and asking what redemption might look like in that other context.
There seems to be some confusion about the status of Bishop Henry Scriven’s status according to Thinking Anglicans.
“How do we grow the organization?” … learning how to go from being a hospitable organization to being a totally welcoming one.
Church officials have been scrambling to downplay the decision announced over the weekend and portray it as a first step in ending the only formal schism in modern Catholicism. But Jewish leaders said the move threatens decades of interfaith dialogue and could harm plans for Benedict’s planned trip to the Holy Land later this year.
Churches are becoming more involved with systemic answers to poverty and lack of health care as well as offering hands on services.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks and Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield, Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism unite