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Magnanimity as a Christian Virtue

February 1, 2012 7 Comments

by Deirdre Good My grandparents’ lives (what I know of them) were remarkably stable when it came to marriage and family. On my father’s side,

Daughters of Hagar

January 31, 2012 3 Comments

The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised. Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a

No one expects the you know what

January 30, 2012 2 Comments

An estimate that has wide credibility among historians is that about 2 percent of those who came before Inquisition tribunals were burned at the stake, which would mean several tens of thousands of people. The rest suffered lesser punishments.

How one parish made up its mind about same-sex blessings

January 30, 2012 No Comments

Even if you aren’t in the habit of visiting our Video blog, you might nonetheless appreciate this presentation of how one parish went about deciding

War on Christianity? Not so much

January 30, 2012 1 Comment

Sometimes “war on Christians” rhetoric means conservative Christians who oppose same-sex relationships, abortion or contraception, or full rights for women, feel entitled to receive government funds, or government jobs, or judicial appointments, without anyone questioning the impact of those beliefs on the discharge of the official duties that justify the grant or the job or the appointment.

Save the twitter stream!

January 30, 2012 8 Comments

We learned this morning that a member of Executive Council has objected to Lelanda Lee’s tweeting of the group’s recent meeting, and that the issue of further tweeting has been referred the council’s Government and Administration for Mission Committee for consideration at its April meeting.

Little things

January 30, 2012 No Comments

However, as we study the Bible, we discover God makes fairly good use of insignificant places, right down to using an insignificant place for the birth of the Savior. … But as it turns out, in the upside down world of God’s Economic Scale, bigger is almost never better.

Andrei Rublev, Monk and Iconographer

January 29, 2012 No Comments

What I’ve come to realize via using this icon as a window into the Divine, is that icons demand of us the same painstaking process Rublev used to create his icons.

Church on the path to irrelevance

January 29, 2012 24 Comments

by George Packard After the dustup with Trinity Church over Duarte Park in Manhattan and my arrest I thought it was a good idea to

Laughter

January 28, 2012 No Comments

The words “laugh” or “laughter” are mentioned a number of times in the Bible; add in “laughingstock” and it comes out to more than 60 times (per my Bible software), including 4 times in just this passage. In almost every mention of the word, the laugh/laughter context is that of scorn or derision

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