General Seminary elects new Chair of Board of Trustees
February 7, 2015
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The Rt. Rev Clifton Daniel, Bishop of Pennsylvania was unanimously elected Chair.
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Green Anglicans: carbon fast for Lent
February 7, 2015
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Instead of giving up chocolate for Lent, how about cutting down on carbon usage? Green Anglicans, Anglican Church of Southern African Environmental Network, offers a chart for
“No thank you” to booze at General Convention
February 7, 2015
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Bishop J. Scott Barker, Nebraska has written a letter about his decision to abstain from alcohol at General Convention 2015. “NO THANK YOU” TO BOOZE at
Report of Task Force on the Study of Marriage
February 7, 2015
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I wonder: are we are trying too hard to make something out of marriage and we are asking marriage to bear too much weight.
Speaking to the Soul: Foreigners
February 7, 2015
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The prophet Isaiah had a very specific message for the exiles. They weren’t going to be God’s only chosen ones. Strangers, including what the Israelites would consider foreigners, who loved God, followed the rules, observed the Sabbath and lived by the covenant God had originally given to Israel would be drawn into the community and fellowship.
The “pay-what-you-want” synagogue
February 6, 2015
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Some synagogues are turning away from dues as their main source of funding and towards voluntary pledges. While this might not sound very radical to
Humanity in the dock
February 6, 2015
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Giles Frasier reflects on the death Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muadh al-Kasasbeh at the hands of the Islamic State and recalls how saints like Thomas More once sent men
Oscar Romero, martyr
February 6, 2015
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Canon C. K. Robertson says that Vatican recognition of Oscar Romero a holy martyr is significant for Episcopalians as well as Roman Catholics. Huffington Post: It
Speaking to the Soul: You Belong to Me
February 6, 2015
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God wants all to believe that we belong in his house. And God leaves the door wide open for more: “Thus says the Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, I will gather others to them besides those already gathered.” So, who’s next?
A better way to say “sorry.”
February 6, 2015
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Ever hear a politician or public figure give a “non-apology apology?” They usually start out with “If any was offended….” Ever have the experience of
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