“We might in fact be the only group ever who in one six month time period were first denied the rights we requested and were then celebrated by the city for our efforts in seeking those rights,” The Rev. Jen Adams laughed
Sister Marjorie Raphael, SSM, was living in a convent on the grounds of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti when the earthquake
A video making the rounds talks about how Jesus came to abolish religion.
Desmond Tutu writes in the Huffington Post that God made everyone for goodness and he tells the story of three people who demonstrate it.
Another comment from a previous post piqued our interest: the writer asks why there should be an Episcopal Church, what defines us, and what would be missing if we were gone?
Sara Ritchey says that wives of married clergy who become Roman Catholic priests should be very careful because in addition to the general disorientation that typical Roman Catholic congregants might experience, there is embedded in the dogma of priestly celibacy a long history of institutional and theological hostility towards women.
A Public Religion Research Institute study says Catholics are more supportive of legal recognitions of same-sex relationships than members of any other Christian tradition and Americans overall, despite the fact that the message that they hear from the pulpit is likely to be more negative.
Being single throughout adulthood is more and more common and less stigmatized but many people–as well as workplaces and the church–don’t get that it is possible to be single and never want to get married or have children.
Studies are appearing that reveal that there are significant numbers of people who are not only unaffiliated religiously but also don’t really care. Call them the not-spiritual-not-religious-not-interested.