Last week’s Gay Pride parade in New York City featured the usual marching of parishioners of St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church, but this year’s parade forced congregants to think outside the box after Archbishop Timothy Dolan asked that the church not carry its name on a banner.
Blogger Richard Floyd’s decades of ministry taught him a thing or two about how the waterbirds of ministry swim, waddle, and peck.
“It takes a lot to live in this life right now.”
Homosexuality is abomination. The Christian Right says so all the time, and non-religious LGBT activists say it too, to relegate religion to humanity’s dustheap. After all, isn’t that what it says in the Bible? . . . No.
Is it possible to engage in life-giving, sacrificial commitment without falling into energy-draining, resentment-breeding burnout? Perhaps most important: How do I instill faith in my children, and how important is church attendance in that endeavor?
A quiet, often invisible group of women with strong religious ties is working relentlessly for peace in many corners of the world. There are some efforts to link them so their voices and impact are amplified, including the Global Peace Initiative for Women.
I recently came across an op-ed in a Catholic publication that just brushed the edge of this argument. The quality of a Mass doesn’t depend on the homily, the writer suggested, nor should we should expect it to . . . I don’t buy it.
Images of saints Peter and Paul – perhaps some of the oldest – were shown last week to reporters in Rome after they were found using laser technology capable of burning off centuries of grime.
Following the example set by his primate, Bishop Azad Marshall of the Diocese of Iran has walked away from the Anglican Communion’s Standing Committee, the Church of England Newspaperreports.
Though it was a procedural ruling that did not determine who is legally able to represent the continuing Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth or the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth or its properties, the opinion prevented Bishop Iker from doing the same.