I would hate to see ENS lose one of the three reporters it currently employs, but that is a plausible interpretation of the comment at line 790 of the line by line budget analysis released late Friday afternoon by the Office of Public Affairs.
Imagine you are offered a trustworthy opportunity for immortality in which your mind (perhaps also your body) will persist eternally. Would you take it? Metaphysician and former British diplomat Stephen Cave thinks accepting such an offer would be a bad idea.
Blogging at Lord, Open Thou Our Lips, the Rev. Chris Arnold says the pre-General Convention conversation about sacramental issues such as the nature of confirmation and the practice of offering Communion to people who have not yet been baptized has got him rethinking the question of infant baptism.
I don’t have firm opinion about the substance of the budget, and I suspect that under the very able leadership of Bishop Steve Lane and Deputy Diane Pollard of the Program, Budget and Finance Committee, we may well arrive at a solution with which most of us are comfortable. My concern is about the damage we will inflict upon one another in getting there.
I have read and loved a lot of literature about religion and religious experience—Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, the Bible—but it’s only with Robinson that I have actually felt what it must be like to live with a sense of the divine.
by Jesse Zink She was leaning on the door of our clinic for support, weak, gaunt, and emaciated—the first time I laid eyes on Pakama
Psalms 146, 147 (Morning) Psalms 111, 112, 113 (Evening) Job 38:1-11, 42:1-5 Revelation 19:4-16 John 1:29-34 Today’s readings, particularly in the interplay between our reading
Scott Gunn is reporting on twitter that the Very Rev. Nick Knisely has been elected Bishop of Rhode Island on the first ballot.
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break bones. If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, or
Into your hands O Father I give my spirit to you Into your hands O Father I give my spirit to you ~English Translation of