Author: Episcopal Cafe

The saints we celebrate today are lamps along the way

You’ve seen them, you know them, whether they are searchlights like Mother Teresa and Desmond Tutu, or those we think of as lesser lights – the neighbor who feeds our cat when we’re out of town, or the stranger who gives direction to a wandering tourist, or the folks in New Jersey who are stringing extension cords and power strips out to the sidewalk so the powerless can charge their cell phones.”

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Looking at the swing states through the lens of religion

In 2008, Obama did well with Protestants, not so well with Catholics in the Keystone State, but this year, the Catholics are a lot more enthusiastic about him than the Protestants are. The explanation? Catholics have come to see Obama as a traditional Democrat, and a significant number of Protestant Obama supporters have started identifying themselves as “None.”

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Climate science skeptics for Jesus

Now, you don’t have to believe that Earth was created in six hectic days in order to be skeptical about climate science, but a large number of climate science deniers also happen to be evolution deniers.

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For All the Saints

The church kitchen was busy, bright and warm, with three cheerful ladies putting together platters of crustless sandwich quarters — the inimitable, the unutterably delicious

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Sister Simone Campbell on the invisible 46.2 million

Programs like food stamps aren’t luxury items like Pay-per-View or Caribbean vacations, to be easily cut from our family budget. In too many households, they are an absolute necessity. What greater American value can there be than making sure all people in the most prosperous nation on earth have enough to eat?

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Paying grace forward

Psalm 24, 29 (Morning) Psalm 84 (Evening) Ecclesiasticus 36:1-17 I Corinthians 12:27-13:13 Matthew 18:21-35 Matthew 18:21-35: Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if

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Blessed words

…There will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit. But the manner of men’s writing must not alienate our heart from the truth, if it appear they have the truth… ~Richard Hooker

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In sure and certain hope

by Maria L. Evans In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ, we commend to Almighty God

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All Souls

Readings for the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls’): Psalm 130 or 116:10-17 < a href="http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Wisdom+3:1-9"> Wisdom 3:1-9 or Isaiah 25:6-9 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

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