More young people entering ministry
August 11, 2010
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For the past 10 years, the estimated median age of candidates for master of divinity degrees has fallen steadily, from 34.14 in 1999 to 32.19 in 2009.
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Author: Andrew Gerns
Priest-in-Charge? Rector? What’s in a title?
August 8, 2010
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What’s on the business card, while entirely irrelevant to some, can certainly have the capacity to tinge ministerial life in critical ways. Though ethereal sounding, the loss of “temporalities” is real enough; and the headaches that can arise in an environment of rent-to-own authority can be more than one feels is worth bargaining for.
Praying your way to a bigger brain?
August 8, 2010
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If you care to look for them, you’ll find correlations between positive brain activity and spiritual exercise.
And just what *do* Episcopalians believe?
August 8, 2010
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The friend who says, “You can believe pretty much anything you want, so long as you enjoy going to services together with us” is largely correct.
All Saints, Pasadena hosting ‘Justice & Marriage For All’ webcast
August 8, 2010
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All Saints Church in Pasadena welcomes back to their adult education hour attorney David Codell – widely credited as the architect of the legal strategy that led to the 2008 California Supreme Court on marriage equality decision.
Sign up now to compete for the title ‘Top Priest’
August 8, 2010
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“Imam Muda” is a terrifically popular Malaysian religious reality-competition television show. How long will it be until its counterpart arrives on our shore? Or do we keep on going with our reruns of “The Vicar of Dibley”?
Entanglements: Feast of the Transfiguration and Hiroshima Day
August 6, 2010
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A key moment in the Christian story collides with a key moment in human history. How they speak to one another!
Habits of highly successful churches
August 5, 2010
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The Church is an antidote to the alienation and complexity so commonly felt in other areas of life. Parishes that foster intimacy and simplicity create situations and opportunities that encourage common experience and storytelling.
Modern weddings threaten marriage?
August 5, 2010
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I’d even say that they’ve become a threat to marriage itself,” he added, arguing that the idea of self-sacrifice is lost when the ceremony is “specifically designed to be all about ‘me’, about being a ‘princess for a day'”.
Giving away 50%
August 5, 2010
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I’ve been surprised how much progress we’ve actually made,” Buffett said. “We’re hoping that America, which is already the most generous society on Earth, becomes even more generous.
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