We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
On Sept. 18, 2010, the WOC had the first public showing of “Pink Smoke Over the Vatican,” a one-hour documentary on the women priest movement made by Jules Hart for her company, Eyegoddess Films.
The federal government doesn’t recognize gay marriage. So when his visa expires next year de Leon, 44, a doctoral student from the Philippines, cannot start the process of becoming a citizen, an option available to spouses of heterosexual U.S. citizens.
The Anglican Church in Sydney is in diabolical trouble. Already battered by the global financial crisis, the diocese is planning further savage spending cuts.
“If we don’t measure things or look at the calendar, we have a tendency to let things slide and say, ‘Tomorrow is soon enough,’ or, ‘Eternity is soon enough.’ It’s not. It’s not. We’ve got work to do in this life.”
The appearance of the commemoration of Vida Dutton Scudder on our calendar today may occasion the recent memory of Francis of Assisi, who appeared on the calendar last Monday. Scudder had a few thoughts of her own on the important work of the Franciscans.
“An out-of-control trolley—or train—is hurtling towards five people on the track, who face certain death. You are nearby and, by turning a switch, could send the trolley onto a spur and save their lives. But one man is chained to the spur and would be killed if the trolley is diverted. Should you flick the switch?”
Ever since the heavy doses of disappointment and anger over process in last summer’s Jeffrey John debacle, our keyboard fingers get itchy every time an announcement is made about an opening for a bishop’s spot in the CoE. So forgive this small indulgence.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is is thinking about the court-ordered aspects of religion.
What better time than the Sunday before Columbus Day to bring attention to the Doctrine of Discovery – the concept that colonial powers own the land they find despite who’s been there already for thousands of years.