Separating healthcare debate wheat from chaff
How does a Christian sort out the wheat from the chaff in the current health care reform debate? And where is the theological reflection as to the meaning of health care?
How does a Christian sort out the wheat from the chaff in the current health care reform debate? And where is the theological reflection as to the meaning of health care?
Kate Daily at Newsweek reviews Judy Shepard’s memoir The Meaning of Matthew.
Bishop Gene Robinson, on his way to Greenbelt, was interviewed by the Guardian.
Greenbelt is an annual outdoor Christian arts and music festival held in the UK. They invite many speakers and have many workshops. One the speakers this year is Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. The usual unhappy voices can be heard in response.
Faith in Public Life reports that more than 144,000 people took part in the live webcast with President Obama on health care with a wide
There was a time when the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops could be counted on as a reliable voice for universal health care and the ethical use of health care resources. Some bishops have decided that their opposition to abortion is more important than health care reform and social justice.
“Salvation depends on love of God and our relationship with Jesus, and we give evidence of our relationship with God in how we treat our neighbors, nearby and far away.”
Here is a round up of news and media reaction to yesterday’s historic votes at the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The New York Times visited some seaside congregations, two of them Episcopal, and find vibrant, welcoming communities of faith.
The ELCA has voted for the ordination and placement of gay and lesbian persons who are in “publicly accountable lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships.” Now they have passed the practicalities about how they make this a reality in their denomination.