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Transformation Through Twitter

October 10, 2012 2 Comments

by Maria L. Evans Almighty and everliving God, source of all wisdom and understanding, be present with those who take counsel for the renewal and

“The arithmetic of good things cancelling out bad things”

October 9, 2012 2 Comments

It’s easy enough to imagine heaven or hell as a continuation of experience – for shorthand, look at the end of the Narnia sequence. But that can’t be right. Experience so far as we can tell depends on a physical substrate.

ENS reports Bennison to retire at year’s end

October 9, 2012 2 Comments

UPDATED with full story Episcopal News Service is reporting that Bishop Charles Bennison, the controversial leader of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, will resign at the

An Episcopal ordinariate for disaffected Catholics?

October 9, 2012 15 Comments

[W]ith Catholic bishops on the warpath against SSM [same-sex marriage] and the ECUSA offically endorsing it, I’d say it’s time for Andrus and company to man up and announce the establishment of an ordinariate for U.S. Catholics who want to become Episcopalians.

Nones on the rise, Protestants in decline in new Pew study

October 9, 2012 17 Comments

About 19.6 percent of Americans say they are “nothing in particular,” agnostic or atheist, up from about 8 percent in 1990. One-third of adults under 30 say the same.

Non-Catholics less likely to believe Columbus discovered America

October 8, 2012 2 Comments

Eighty-seven percent of Roman Catholics credit Christopher Columbus with discovering America, according to a 2010 survey. But while majorities in other religious categories agree, it’s by smaller margins, especially among people of non-Christian religions and no religion.

Bishop Whalon offers a few thoughts on restructuring the church

October 8, 2012 12 Comments

Bishop Pierre Whalon takes a long look at the structure of the Episcopal Church, and ventures a few opinions on the sorts of changes that

Talking about God and sex on campus

October 8, 2012 No Comments

As a part of reflecting on a poem by Jane Kenyon called, “Cages” we shared a bit about the difficulties of “the long struggle to be at home in this body.” Then we shifted to a game in which teams competed against each other to write down as many slang words about parts of the human reproductive system as possible.

Stories #2: Who calls us to the table?

October 8, 2012 7 Comments

by Donald Schell Part 2 of 3 My Uncle Ted was a Presbyterian lay missionary in Cameroon. He wasn’t actually my uncle. He’d been married

Preaching on some tough readings

October 7, 2012 15 Comments

Several preachers who share their thinking and sermons online mentioned that this week’s readings made challenging sermon fodder. Here are some insights on how three preachers either prepared, or preached.

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