The Episcopal Church Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop (JNCPB) calls attention to the September 30 deadline for the Call for Discernment and Profile for the election of the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church
While people are feeling warm and fuzzy about Pope Francis’ apparent inclusivity, a Roman Catholic parish has told a gay couple who have been together for thirty years to divorce and break up or else they cannot receive communion in the parish they’ve attended together for 11 years.
Friday, September 26, 2014 – Proper 20, Year Two [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including today’s scripture
…so much of the rhetoric [from TREC] around this reimagining has to do with getting “outside church walls,” pushing beyond the habitual confines of our church life and offering people a new paradigm of Christianity. …So we should get outside our increasingly empty pews and go talk with people… But what shall we say to them?
Joshua Bell, the renowned violinist who once posed as a typical subway busker for a Washington Post magazine article, is back underground again. The question
Pew Social Trends reports a record share of adult Americans have ever married as values, economics and gender patterns change. In 1960 1 in 10
There has been a lot of unintelligent response to Archbishop Justin Welby’s admission last week that he sometimes wonders whether God exists. Writing for The
The meaning of the word reconciliation, as the word is frequently used in church circles, has always made me uneasy for reasons I couldn’t define
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post writes: Two new major polls out this week show Americans divided down the middle on questions such as whether
Do not love the world or the things in the world. The love of the Father is not in those who love the world; for