By design, General Convention is the largest gathering of the people of the Episcopal Church. This extraordinary opportunity should be used to empower and equip the church and its leaders for mission and evangelism in God’s world by creating a balance between legislative deliberation and a focus on renewal of the church.
[Tweets] are 140 characters long because that is the length of phone text messages. If you are not yet texting on your cell phone, learning to do that would be a good first step. If you are, then you are almost to the twitterdise.
Another clever feature of their survival was that they had split among the community various sacramental duties that normally would have been under the scope of a single priest.
The Café has confirmed that the National Football League season will end tonight, following a conclusive competition.
They’re tired of having so-called Christian words used as knives to stab and slash at their innermost parts. They’re tired of watching us filet each other with them and shred each other apart like julienne fries flying through the blades of a Super Veg-O-Matic.
I think there’s a point in every person’s life where they have to walk away from something because it isn’t productive, isn’t safe or isn’t fulfilling. Sometimes they have to leave everything behind and travel light.
Devotional reading of the Bible naively presumes that a person, by reading the text, will hear God speak. Meaning depends upon the reader’s modern worldview, the plain sense of the English text, and the reader’s existing theological biases.
Psalm 69 “O God, you know my foolishness, and my faults are not hidden from you.” One of the Native Youth with whom I work
Truly, every flame has become a sign of his Holy Spirit, the Lord and life-giver, the one who spoke by the prophets.
Truly, the many lights–and there are many–now bear witness to the one true Light.
Truly, all truth, all goodness, and all beauty, wherever they are found, have their source and find their goal in Him.
He thinks for a long time. Finally he says, “I have faith that God doesn’t think that I am dirt.” With that pronouncement, I begin to see a long line of defeated people who never believed that they are valued and cherished. Without this fundamental faith understanding, change is not possible. And faith requires trusting, which is tough on those whose days are overflowing with fractured promises.