“The one thing I hope is I gave back. I played the way I would want my team mates to play. I’ll miss it,” says Greg Maddux, who announced his retirement today in Las Vegas. He is perhaps the greatest non-juicing pitcher of his era: 355 victories, 4 Cy Youngs and 18 Gold Gloves, a sure first ballot Hall of Famer. We in the Church of Baseball are grateful and wish him well.
The Washington Post reports on a prayer breakfast that attracted business leaders, investors, lawyers, headhunters and other professionals. But this was not your parent’s prayer breakfast.
Annual Christmas message from The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.
Affinity-group politics took second place to competence for Chief Lobbyist and Vice President for Governmental Affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Richard Cizik when he walked into the voting booth this year. What he has to say shows the shift in thinking (and possible split) among politically active evangelicals.
If you were away this weekend, you may have missed some big stories on the Cafe. Here is a round up.
Can you tell the Christmas story for radio or video in under 30 seconds? That’s was the challenge the Church Advertising Network gave churches, youth groups and individuals this Christmas. The winning radio was set to a YouTube video below.
The Michigan Liberal reports that the Bishops of the Episcopal dioceses and the ELCA Synods of Michigan have together issued a statement about the crisis
Krista Trippet speaks with Binyavanga Wainaina to explore the complex ethics of global aid. Wainaina is a young writer from Kenya and “is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective” to the morality and efficacy behind many Western initiatives to abolish poverty and speed development in Africa.”
Ruth Gledhill reports that five Primates came to talk with the Archbishop of Canterbury about the goings-on in the Anglican Communion and, presumably, the events in Wheaton. She says nothing happened.
Updated. A small church in northeast Pennsylvania is having a Goth Eucharist modeled on one that was begun by the Church of St. Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge.