Last month, NPR rounded out its series on the “past, present and future of global warming,” a comprehensive look at climate change co-produced with National Geographic that ran more than 200 stories. The last installment featured an onsite interview with Martin Palmer, an Anglican priest and founder of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation.
The light show we alluded to last week is up and running at the National Cathedral. But this is no ordinary light show–Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter paints the entire Cathedral facade using light. The results are stunning; the Washington Post has a gorgeous flash photo essay.
During the weeks when high school seniors make their final decisions regarding college versus whether to take a gap year or get a job, I had the opportunity to spend five days at Cornell University talking with students about their hopes, dreams and challenges, especially during freshman year. What was their greatest challenge or surprise? Could they have prepared themselves better before arriving on campus?
Christ has gathered the church in unity through the Spirit. With sure hope, let us pray:
Lord, hear our prayer.
The Wall Street Journal reports on an effort by a Scottsdale based conservative advocacy group to create a legal test to the IRS’s interpretation of the limits of political speech within churches.
There seems to have been a small change in the board of directors of the Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD). The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, who joined the board a few years ago, is no longer listed as a member.
At least one critic has claimed that Anglicanism and other forms of Western Christianity in their present form are doomed to fail because they are too tightly bound to the West and its culture. But a recent event in Missouri gives another writer hope.
A new coalition of voices within the American Christian community is beginning to lobby in concert for a change in US environmental policy. The newest voices that are joining to the call for this change are coming from the traditionally politically conservative evangelical wing.
Christine Wicker argues in a recent column (and in her new book) that the political power of the Evangelical vote in the United States is actually much less than we’ve been led to believe. And even what power there was is now decreasing.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has not given permission to Bishop Gene Robinson to preach from the pulpits of England. Giles Fraser points out that this sort of thing has happened before. He argues that it was wrong then and it is wrong now.