The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man’s life; and until he has realized it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.
In 2006, the Diocese of Washington asked the General Convention to include Thurgood Marshall in the Episcopal Church’s book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts. The request was referred to a church commission, but those who support Marshall’s cause can hold a Eucharist in his honor next month, perhaps on May 17, the anniversary of his victory in Brown. v. Board of Education.
The diseases that are responsible for this troubling trend seem to be most related to smoking, high blood pressure, and obesity. “Smoking and blood pressure have a long history of being controlled through both personal and population strategies,” said one author of the study.
Amended John-David Schofield has changed the name of his corporation back to “The Protestant Episcopal Bishop of San Joaquin The Living Church reports: California law
It is the locavore’s dilemma that organic bananas delivered by a fuel-efficient boat may be responsible for less energy use than highly fertilized, nonorganic potatoes trucked from a hundred miles away. Even locally grown, organic greenhouse tomatoes can consume 20 percent more resources than a tomato from a far-off warm climate, because of all the energy needed to run the greenhouse.
As a result of ethanol subsidies and mandates, what we ourselves throw away in order to produce fuel in this fashion could be 50% greater than the value of the fuel itself. We could have more food for the Haitians, more fuel for us, if we were simply to use our existing resources more wisely. We have adopted this policy not because we want to drive our cars, but because our elected officials perceive a greater reward from generating a windfall for American farmers.
The Archbishop of Canterbury today set out his hopes for this year’s Lambeth Conference in a video message addressed to Bishops and Dioceses across the worldwide communion.
As protests intensified across southern Africa against the shipment of Chinese-made arms intended for Zimbabwe, the government in Beijing said Tuesday that the ship carrying the arms — owned by a large Chinese state-owned company, Cosco — may return to China because of the difficulties in delivering the goods.
Notice: the question is not who owns the church property.
The President’s people got the Pope wrong. They did so because they wanted to be able to say that we are right and others are wrong. (The press got the Pope wrong because they apparently let the President’s writers to do their work for them.) But it’s not just the President’s speech writers who chase after the mirage of absolutes. We all want to know for certain what God wants us to do.