How powerful is this need to see with our own eyes, to feel, to taste, to hear, to smell. Though the aural evidence of the presence of peepers was overwhelming, a sound I’ve welcomed every spring of my life, the urge to actually see one and – better still – to hold one for a few seconds was strong. It was strong enough to compel me to get my shoes and jeans soaking wet in the chill of a spring evening.
Jesus, having fulfilled his earthly mission, went to the Mount of Olives, took leave of his mother and the disciples, and ascended from there to his Father in heaven. It was his final act on this earth, but it was an act that opens to us, his followers, endless possibilities, for Jesus did not return to the Father alone.
The Episcopal Church in Southern Virginia has set up a fund for immediate relief for victims of the tornado in the Suffolk area. An initial emergency relief fund of $10,000 from the diocese is being administered through St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Suffolk, Virginia.
A San Rafael minister who presided over several same-sex ceremonies didn’t violate Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) rules, because same-sex marriages don’t exist in the church, a church court ruled Tuesday.
It is an injustice, a legacy of the racist threads of this nation’s history, but prominent African-Americans are regularly called upon to explain or repudiate what other black Americans have to say, while white public figures are rarely, if ever, handed that burden. Senator John McCain has continued to embrace a prominent white supporter, Pastor John Hagee, whose bigotry matches that of Mr. Wright.
The five full communion partners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America are the Episcopal Church, the Moravian Church in America, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Reformed Church in America and United Church of Christ.
Thirty-one artists contribute works of self-expression to the latest exhibition, Portraits of the Self, launched on the Episcopal Church & Visual Arts website this month. It is the first exhibit of 2008 and the 25th on the Episcopal artists’ website since the organization was inaugurated in 2000.
The Rev George Pitcher, Curate of St Bride’s, Fleet Street, London in an op-ed in The Telegraph: It looks as if Dr Williams will continue
Walter Cabe, president of the Steering Committee of North Texas Episcopalians said that the committee is a way for several Episcopal groups to bond and work with the national church to stay intact. He said it should not be categorized as liberal or conservative.
These are indeed difficult decisions that we at times are called to make, and I have no
doubt that all of us would wish things were different. We must respond to the situations
with which we are faced, compassionately but not naively, knowing that we make these
decisions not for ourselves alone but for the people whom we are called to shepherd and
oversee.