The Episcopal Church’s work with Dick’s Sporting Goods “was just one small piece of a wider effort, and no one thought then that it would be — or thinks now that it was — anything like a decisive act. But it helped. The lesson: This work is worth doing.”
The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School “are asking us, and imploring us, and challenging us to find a better way.”
“To our leaders in Congress and in the White House, I say ‘arrest a nun, not a Dreamer.'” -Sister Elise Garcia
“The crusades and ministry of the Rev. Billy Graham was a big tent, a revival tent — big, gracious, welcoming, and deeply grounded in the love that is the way of Jesus.”
News outlets are reporting this morning that the Reverend Billy Graham has died at the age of 99. The Washington Post reports that he was
“In the wake of this massacre, we believe God is calling us to understand that we must not simply identify the social and political impediments to ending these lethal spasms of violence in our country. We must reflect on and acknowledge our own complicity in the unjust systems that facilitate so many deaths, and, in accordance with the keeping of a holy Lent, repent and make reparations.”
This Lent, how can we all hear the words of women who have been damaged by the sin of pride in the church? How can we allow those words to witness to a truth of our church, that we are, at times, overcome by this sin?
More than 100 evangelical leaders have signed a letter, published as a full-page ad today in the Washington Post, asking Donald Trump to consider dreamers,
Working through the Hymnal 1982, they started with hymn No. 1 at 8 a.m. They also devoted two hours to singing all the verses of the special dedication hymns chosen by donors who gave an extra amount for the honor.
“The service is open to all who support the work of the free press and value this fundamental element of our democracy.”