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Australian Cathedral displays sculptures to bring notice to the plight of refugees

April 15, 2017 No Comments

Australia has it’s own situation with boat people. Australia’s Royal Navy intercepts boats full off would-be immigrants and refugees to Australia off that nation’s coasts and detains them in refugee centers. However, Australia has farmed these centers to other island nations in the vicinity of Australia. There are detention centers on Christmas Island, Manus Island and Nauru.

What do people in the US think of scripture?

April 15, 2017 2 Comments

The folks over at the Pew Research Center have released five factoids about how folks in the US, who adhere to the three Abrahamic faiths, view scripture.

Seven years on the Cathedral of the Diocese of Christchurch still lies in ruin

April 15, 2017 1 Comment

Christchurch Cathedral was severely damaged by major earthquakes that hit Christchurch from September 2010 to summer 2012. Other than to secure the structure from further damage and to ensure no one is injured, nothing has been done to replace or repair the building.

Anglican & World Church leaders’ Easter messages

April 15, 2017 No Comments

A round up of Easter messages by various Anglican Primates as well as from prelates of other denominations.

The Way of the Cross, a meditation for Holy Week

April 8, 2017 No Comments

By the Revd Br Tobias Stanislas Haller, BSG. The video is a set of Stations of the Cross that Tobias created for his parish in 2014. The music for meditating is a Symphonic poem that Tobias wrote in 1982. The music is based on traditional music of the Passion and ends with a chorale that “looks beyond the Way of the Cross towards Easter.”

10 Downing Street announces appointment for the See of Sheffield.

April 8, 2017 No Comments

The Crown Nominations Commission has announced an appointment for bishop diocesan for the See of Sheffield.

Religious liberty vs LGBTQ citizens

April 8, 2017 15 Comments

We have perhaps all seen the most vocal situations of businesses not wanting to serve LGBTQ folks. The legal argument is, that any business owner with a firmly held religious belief, should be allowed to refuse service to LGBTQ folks, if serving them would violate the business owner’s belief. The conservative law firms that fight these cases often contend that their position is that which is held by the majority of US citizens. Recent polling affirms that only one group actually supports laws legalizing discrimination against LGBTQ citizens.

The Barna Group encounters another group who don’t attend church

April 1, 2017 10 Comments

The conservative research and polling group, Barna, have encountered a separate group of folks in the US who do not attend church. There is a group out there in the US who have religious beliefs and aren’t affiliating with churches. They believe in God and practice their faith on their own, apart from the Church.

Google discovers that kids foresee a bright, happy future

April 1, 2017 No Comments

Last year, we asked young artists across the US to create a doodle about what they see for the future. Congratulations to Sarah Harrison from Connecticut in the 10th – 12th grade group on being named the National Finalist of the 2016-17 Doodle 4 Google Contest for her doodle “A Peaceful Future”.

One Fifth of Millennials openly identify as LGBTQ

April 1, 2017 3 Comments

Most of my life I heard about the 10%. Ten percent of any given population, in any culture, were likely a sexual minority. They fell somewhere on the Kinsey scale of human sexuality other than 100% heterosexual. It has been a real shock at how quickly things have changed in the US regarding LGBTQ acceptance in the last 20 years. We moved from the US Supreme Court striking down all of the sodomy laws in the US with the 1996 decision in Lawrence v Texas to legal same-sex civil marriage in all 50 states in the 2015 decision of Obergefell v Hodges.

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