Episcopal Cafe – Page 293

Blindness

April 17, 2012 No Comments

by Maria L. Evans Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion

The peculiar popularity of Thomas Kinkade

April 16, 2012 2 Comments

Kinkade sold a great many of these feelings through some curious approaches to painting and a shrewd business distribution system. Critics easily dismissed his paintings as kitsch, poor art, or perhaps not even art at all. While I don’t really like Kinkade’s paintings, I believe it would be naïve to simply dismiss his work, to stop querying the deeper reasons for its mass appeal.

Rowan Williams and the decline of religious institutions

April 16, 2012 11 Comments

The Anglican crisis is not about Williams or even religion. It is about the drive for meaningful connection and community and a better, more just, and more peaceful world as institutions of church, state and economy seem increasingly unresponsive to these desires. It is about the gap between a new spirit and institutions that have lost their way. Only leaders who can bridge this gap and transform their institutions will succeed in this emerging cultural economy.

Episcopal buzzwords, and how they fail

April 16, 2012 6 Comments

“The thing of it is, despite our wonderful slogans we still seem to have difficulty articulating what the Episcopal Church is and is for (though we seem to have no problem articulating what it is not).”

Surprised by Article XII, or What can be achieved at a special convention?

April 16, 2012 15 Comments

Someone who knows the Constitution of the Episcopal Church better than I do called my attention to an issue that has been hiding in plain sight in the church’s debate on structural reform.

A study in numerical decline

April 16, 2012 4 Comments

I live tweeted the presentation that Kirk Hadaway, director of research for the Episcopal Church, made to the Episcopal Church Building Fund conference, Buildings for

Who is responsible for leaks from the Crown Nominations Commission?

April 16, 2012 No Comments

“The archbishop of Canterbury set up the Fritchie inquiry with alacrity when it was suspected that Colin Slee was the leaking member of the CNC. It would be good to know that steps are being taken to identify the real culprit and ensure that he will not be involved in nominating the new archbishop or in any further appointments.”

My grandchildren ask big questions: compassion

April 15, 2012 2 Comments

by Margaret Treadwell “Church is what you do” was the family mantra in my small hometown where the Episcopal Church became my spiritual, intellectual, emotional

Trust me

April 15, 2012 5 Comments

So it’s very possible that the intent of this passage is actually more like, “Don’t worry. You have a belief in God and also a belief in me”–suggesting that this part of the discourse in John is more about our belief being a survival manual than a celestial soda machine, doling out soft drinks if only we plug it with the right number of prayer quarters.

The travelogue begins…

April 14, 2012 1 Comment

When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was nearer; for God

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