Modern sociologists and social/cultural anthropologists divide folks born in different eras with a cohort name. Right now it’s all the rage to speak about the Millennials, those folks who are adults 18 to 34 years old. Especially when speaking of the future of the Church. Only 40% of Millennials identify with the name.
It was a company that the brothers started on their own, without even help from Mom & Dad, while they were still in high school. For them it was a way to earn money for school and allow them to be involved in their favorite sports. The company name was a humorous ribbing of their off-time activity, weight lifting. And what started as high school athletes moving friends and neighbors for pizzas and tips has become a top notch moving company with professionally trained college athletes.
The Revd Bob Simon worked his concept of the openness of the Church to the population he used for the piazza, folks from all walks of life represented as the little Lego people walking the square.
Just about everyone has one, a least favorite hymn. That hymn that sends you into paroxysms of disdain the moment you hear the first few bars of the music. What if you could arrange to not have to sing that hymn for a whole year? Would you be willing to pay money for the privilege? How much would you pay?
Once again I invite you to read the words of one of my favorite Christian pastors, Jon Pavlovitz, who just doesn’t happen to be Episcopalian/Anglican, but models Jesus really well to me.
This week in his blog on Christianity Today, Ed Stetzer wrote a very good article regarding the situation.
During August, the 8th National Anglican Sacred Circle of the Anglican Church of Canada has been meeting in Port Elgin ON. The Sacred Circle is the Indigenous Anglican Church in Canada. Finally on 25 AUG, Sol Sanderson, from the Primate’s Commission on Discovery, Reconciliation and Justice, read a draft document from the Commission that was a proposal for a fifth ecclesiastical province for the Anglican Church of Canada. After careful consideration the Sacred Circle came to a consensus on the proposal and endorsed sending it to the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples.
When surveyed by phone, folks in the US inflate their religious participation as opposed to answering identical questions in an on line survey. Folks are most likely to under report seldom or never attending religious services.
St Mary’s Academy, a Roman Catholic high school for young women in Portland OR had withdrawn a job offer earlier made to a woman who later reported to the school that she was a lesbian. Less that 24 hours after the job recension was reported to the students and their parents by the school’s president, the school’s board has done an about face and has adopted a equal opportunity employment policy that includes sexual orientation and marital status.
Just a few days after revealing publicly that cancer has spread to his brain, 90 year old Jimmy Carter taught his regular Sunday School lesson