Houses of worship throughout Kenya; churches, temples & mosques are sporting a bright yellow color. It is part of an art based peace initiative designed to bring people of different faiths together.
Can you say Dodransbicentennial? The Diocese of the North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba is celebrating an important anniversary as a diocese this year. It was established in 1842. In 1883 it became part of the new province in the Carribean, the Church in the Province of the West Indies.
This incident actually happened to Julio Diaz in 2008. Recently StoryCorp teamed with Upworthy and turned Julio’s story into an animated video. The moral of Julio’s story sounds very familiar.
We call the Church to pray for Standing Rock, for Good Minds to prevail and for peaceful settlement. We also call the Church to pray for water, that is taken for granted in many of our communities but good water is getting scarce in our communities. We call upon the Church to pray for our governments, both Indigenous and Settler, that they may work together to protect our fragile Mother Earth. Flowing waters are the arteries of our Creator, precious and life giving. Without water, there is no life here on Mother Earth. Pray that our Creator, God, will help us to live in balance and harmony with each other and with Earth, Fire, Air and Water.
The American Bible Society hired the Barna Group, a conservative research & polling organization, to examine “teens’ perceptions of the Bible, the role they believe it should play in American public life and their level of personal engagement with it.” The published research is the 2016 Teen State of the Bible.
Nigel Rowley, an Anglican, married his Danish betrothed, Mikel Lindbæk, in the Lutheran cathedral church of Copenhagen, the Church of Our Lady. The Bishop of Copenhagen, the Rt Revd Peter Skov-Jakobsen, solemnized the marriage. The Church of England does not allow same-sex marriages, so Nigel chose to marry in the Church of Denmark.
The Lesbian couple had put up an LGBTQ Pride flag outside of their home for the first time immediately following the news of the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando FL. They had lived in the Natick community of Boston MA for a number of years. However, earlier this month after having left their home for a vacation, they returned to disappointment and shock. Someone had stolen the Pride flag and had egged the front of their home.
Last year when Hurricane Joaquin was barreling down on Washington DC, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said that the storm was God’s judgement on the city because the US Supreme Court had ruled in favor of marriage equality. This week he did not claim that God’s wrath was involved in the flooding and desruction in Louisiana. This time he stated that it was an opportunity for the Church.
Joyce Parry Moore completed an undergraduate degree in theater & voice and then recieved a graduate degree in opera performance. But as much as she enjoys the theater arts, she maintains that her true calling is the Church. The Revd Parry Moore is now the rector of St James Episcopal Church in Kent WA.
Every time that Fabien raises his arms in victory, spectators catch a glimpse of his tribute to his grandfather, Max Goldschmidt. Mr Goldschmidt was a Jewish man from Berlin who survived the holocaust at the Auchwitz Nazi concentration camp.