Failure, forgiveness, re-marriage

A note from a younger priest stirred up a lot of memories for me: “A couple I met on Thursday are getting married two weeks from today. He’s been married before and needs some kind of sense of closure from his previous marriage. I think he wants some kind of ceremony that will help him leave it behind.” What had I actually learned from my own divorce and remarriage almost a third of a century ago?

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Let’s fight

Two old men had lived together for many years and they had never fought with one another. The first said to the other, “Let us also have a fight like other men.” The other replied, “I do not know how to fight.”

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Life with Bishop Paul Moore

This week in The New Yorker magazine, is an excerpt from Honor Moore’s book “The Bishop’s Daughter,” Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret, about her father’s public service and private life

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A visit to the Congo

Bishop Pierre Whalon, of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe, has just returned from a visit to the Province de L’Eglise Anglicane Du Congo.

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Massive new study on Religion in American released

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has released a landmark survey this morning. The survey represents the largest study ever done on denominational demographics in the United States. Over 35,000 people participated in the study and it apparently is able to see groups and affiliations down to 0.3%

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