Nicholas Kristoff, writing in the Sunday New York Times Week in Review, notices a new brand of atheist, ones who a skeptical but respect the role and achievement of religion in human culture
Cathy Lynn Grossman at USA Today looks at the people who go back to the church of their youth. They are not converts, she calls them “reverts.”
Grace Episcopal Church in Charlestown, VA, held their Easter worship in a local synagogue this week.
A member of the Crown Nominations Commission, psychiatrist Dr. Glynn Harrison, believes that therapy might work for clergy and others with “unwanted” same sex attraction.
BIshop Pierre Whalon says that it is both naive and impossible to separate religion and politics.
Bosco Peters on Liturgy points us to a fascinating lecture by Fr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary in New York. Behr believes that the early church communities that were the most diverse–catholic–were what came to be known as orthodox.
Andrew Sullivan, writing in the Daily Beast, says that Christianity is in crisis. What he says is nothing new and neither is his prescription. But that does not mean it is not radical. His solution: stop propping up the church and go back to Jesus.
Tim Flores has been living car-free for a decade. So when he needs to move, does he borrow a friend’s pick up? Nah. He goes by bike.
There is an on-line petition started to the Crown Nominating Committee seeking to have Geraldine Granger be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by the Queen, Really.
Police were called after a religious procession degenerated into a dispute over doughnuts and coffee.