Author: Andrew Gerns

Coded messages to God

Andrew Brown tells the story of Dorothy Ann Holm who wrote apparently random strings of capital letter on 20 cards before she died. It turned out to be a code of the heart.

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The ordination in the atrium

The Rev. Malcolm Marler, director of Pastoral Care at University of Alabama – Birmingham Hospital, was ordained as an Episcopal priest on January 15 in UAB Hospital’s North Pavilion Atrium by by the Rt. Rev. Key Sloan, Bishop of Alabama.

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How shalt thou tweet?

The Diocese of Bath & Wells in the Church of England released a list of nine commandments for Christians using Twitter and other social media.

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Ceasefire signed in South Sudan

Episcopalians who have mission partnerships with Anglicans in South Sudan are relieved at the news that the government of South Sudan and rebels loyal to the country’s ousted former

vice president signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursda

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Why am I not poor?

Dale Hansen Burke, an evangelical Christian and business owner, asks herself if our mythology about pluck, hard work and drive are really all there is to over coming poverty. Her encounter with people in poverty made her ask “why am I not poor?”

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A resolution worth pursuing

Chris Steadman wonders if in 2014 we might put two pernicious ideas to rest: that atheists are incapable of being moral and that theists are stupid.

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A resource for young adults in mourning

Two women who both endured the deaths of their parents at early ages channeled their grief into a new website called Modern Loss, intended as a forum for twenty- and thirtysomethings struggling with grief and mourning.

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Seeing deeper at the National Cathedral

The Washington National Cathedral is clearing away all the seats in the nave during the week of January 13 – 17. Visitors will be able to experience the vast nave in a way that is new to modern eyes but would have been familiar in the Cathedrals of medieval Europe.

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