In our Saturday series leading up to General Convention we are making the Blue Book reports available as they are published. Preparing for General Convention
When Johnson gave his historic speech advocating for passage of the Voting Rights Bill, he invoked the death of the white minister, James Reeb, as opposed to the black man, Jimmie Lee Jackson. And with the support of a galvanized nation now behind it, the Voting Rights Bill was signed into law on Aug. 6, 1965.
Commemoration of Perpetua and Her Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 202 Psalm124-127 Daniel 6:10-16 Hebrews10:32-39 Matthew 24:9-14 Saints come in all kinds. Recognized saints, by churchly
I think that in everything he did Jesus was pointing at something else. He was inviting us into relationship. He was asking us to challenge ourselves, to question, to open our hearts. He was showing us over and over again a living God, a God who desires relationship with us, who wants dialogue, who wants to teach us, change us, open us up like a seed so that we can sprout new roots and stems.
John 2: 13-22 Jesus is in the temple and he means business. He’s come to proclaim the new covenant, even though he knows it will
On this day in 1872, we recognized that we all need time in the wilderness, to set ourselves apart. May Lent be such a time, a time not just of giving up some things, but more importantly a time to hallow and consecrate ourselves anew to God.
There will always be an organized church of some form. So while our gatherings might shift and look different than they do today, Christians will always gather together to do more than we ever could on our own.
In October 2011, Professor Moltmann, in Atlanta to lecture at Emory, asked Professor McBride if he could visit Ms. Gissendaner in prison. His visit coincided with a graduation ceremony for the 10 or so theology students at the prison, and he agreed to give a commencement address.
The Episcopal Church in its local, lived expression is very good at stifling new ideas and suffocating relational groupings if it appears that such movements will threaten the establishment. Creating these checks-and-balances between Vestry and Parish Council, then, will lead both groups to become partners in the work of ministry, one paying greater attention to relational matters, the other to those more functional (and necessary) concerns of what it means to be church.
Committee members will get comments and questions as they make budget presentations to the pre-General Convention synods about to begin in each of the church’s nine provinces. A web-based comment process open to the whole church is due to be available within the week.