Jeffrey Weiss at RNS says “The Lego Movie” builds its story upon religious and moral themes which snap together in some very unexpected ways. Torey Lightcap shares twenty ways the film informs his faith.
When Chris Haw, now a Roman Catholic, looks back on his days as a worship leader at one branch of a famous mega-church, he learns that there is ritual implicit in pious non-ritualism. More important, done well liturgy works in a way that does not need to be forced.
Nominations are now being accepted for various Episcopal Church positions, committees or boards that will be elected during the next General Convention.
The 79th General Convention of The Episcopal Church will be held in July 2018 at The Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas (Diocese of Texas).
Today, the United Thank Offering and the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council officially agreed on a memorandum of understanding between the two groups. Executive Council also approved a new set of bylaws for UTO, which has supported the church’s mission and ministry for 125 years.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori will receive an honorary degree at the University of Oxford in June. The Archbishop of Canterbury immediately welcomed the news as “a powerful model for women seeking to pursue their vocations in the church.”
A look at religion affiliation by age and ethnic groups in the US show that most groups remain pretty static in terms of their religious affiliation,except among whites: among older whites, evangelical, mainline and Catholics go from 69% of those over 65 but only 25% among those 18 – 29 years old.
What if you could invent your own religion from scratch? What would you teach about God? For that matter, what would your own personal do-it-yourself religion tell us about you?
A communique of the Emergency House of Bishops meeting of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sunday meeting in Juba that was held this past Tuesday and Wednesday.
A House Armed Services Committee hearing on religious freedom focused on two groups: the freedom of minority religions to express themselves and whether evangelical Christians, particularly in the chaplain’s corps, are permitted to proselytize.