“This sentence especially touches me: “When Jacob ended his charge to his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.” The image of drawing up his feet and peacefully dying has such a poignancy about it. It represents a death many of us would hope for, yet, denied to so many, especially in the time of the continuing pandemic, war, and violence.”
“I wonder…
I really do…
if we could buttonhole Mark
in a corner of the café
where the company of saints
sips espresso”
Other data from the PRRI 2020 Census suggests mainline church membership will exceed will white evangelical membership in the coming years. For instance, young people are more likely to be mainline than evangelical. And evangelicals are older.
“As the sun rises into the sky
on the songs of sparrows,
let me think on God, and praise God’s Name.”
We mark out our days, commemorating this and them, and by the word of the Bible time is sanctified: three days here, forty there, seven weeks of seven, and a thousand years under God’s unblinking gaze. Sabbaths sigh, and Wednesdays teeter on the hinge of the week; we can look forward or back.
College professors lean heavily Democratic regardless of field. In religion, the range is much wider. Missionaries and Catholic priests lean heavily Republican. Rabbis and Episcopal Priests lean heavily Democratic.
“Today, may I be open to what lies ahead –
your presence with me
blessing me
showering me with mercy
redeeming and renewing me
today and always.”
by Tom Sine An Unprecedented Housing Crisis President Biden extended housing eviction for more than 7 million households in the United States until the end
Good Shepherd in Lake Charles is reciprocating a favor. In 1918 winds blew the roof off the church. Temple Sinai shared its space until repairs to Good Shepherd were completed.
Few have had a closer view of the ministry’s evolution than Sister Pamela Clare Magers of the Community of St. Francis, who has worked at the School for Deacons in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1982 and started teaching a course on “contemporary social issues” in 1984. Prior to the introduction of that course, the curriculum for the school focused on the educational topics required of priests, and the liturgical role of deacons serving at the altar.