Efrem Smith poses a radical idea: Instead of abandoning the city or giving over the urban church scene to a variety of small established- and store-front congregations that don’t make a dent in their communities, how about planting churches among the urban poor?
Fifty bishops and young adults, from 14 dioceses representing the Episcopal Church’s eight domestic provinces, gathered in Washington, D.C. recently to learn how to navigate the legislative process.
A huge proportion of newly married gay couples in the US are both middle aged and have been together a long time and given a choice they are choosing to opt in to marriage in an era when many young straight couples are choosing to delay marriage.
So for the Christian, is work a necessary evil–a way to earn money so we can do God’s work on the weekends? Or is it the primary expression of human creativity and mission? Baptist minister Matt Perlman suggests a theology of work that challenges the idea that daily work and faithful living are separate spheres.
A London-trained fashion designer has launched a new range of clerical wear for women in the Church of England.
James T. Kloppenberg is the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University and he spoke with Religion and Politics “Barack Obama and the Paradoxes of Progressive Christianity.”
Uganda is getting ready to bar non-governmental organizations from “promoting” homosexuality but would in fact prevent these groups from providing medical care and education not only to gays but also to victims of sexual violence.
An installation at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York shows the last moments of Monique Sindler who died in 2006. It is a reflection on living and dying in a sacred space.
The arrangement designed to welcome disaffected Anglicans into the Roman Catholic Church is apparently not catching on. After taking in their first members when the scheme was set up in 2011, membership has remained flat.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori visited Nashotah House yesterday. It was a visit marked by controversy since the board consists of both Episcopalians and members of churches that broke away from the Episcopal Church.