One proposed budget keeps diocesan asking at 19 percent and requires cuts of about $6 million from the 2010-12 budget. The other reduces the asking to 15 percent and requires cuts of about $21 million
The public nature of this last interview, frankly, made me uncomfortable–probably because I got more glimpse than I needed of someone else’s private demons. It felt like an over-share of grand proportions,…
“You don’t even know all that I have done. You think God will have anything to do with me if he knows me. I’ve been there.
The Episcopal Church is the sole official branch of the Anglican Communion in the United States, not “the main American branch.”
Approached in a prayerful manner, the Bible is found to be always contemporary–not just writings composed in the distant past but a message addressed directly
by Donald Schell My colleague Rick Fabian took a questioning hymn title, African Gospel song that speaks one hope for present moment and whatever follows
I’m afraid in the world of spreading The Good News In Christ, the institutional church in the past century, has been too complacent to “kick for one”–and the result is declining membership in the mainline denominations.
The Florida Times-Union published a lengthy story yesterday on clergy burnout and how to avoid it. We’d like to have from clergy among our readership about what wears you down and how you attempt to take care of yourself.
As much as Li Tim-Oi suffered at the hands of the Japanese and the Communists, the rejection by her church of her priestly vocation must have been one of the hardest battles she had to endure… It’s hard to be a prophet, and it’s hard to be the first. It’s hard to face an enemy but even harder to face brothers and sisters of one’s own spiritual family.
“Affirming” a “desire” does nothing other than acknoledge that ACNA wants to be in the communion. “Anglican Family” is as undefined a term in Anglican Ecclesiology as “Enemy Combatant” is in the Geneva Convention. This is a pretty vague pat on the back from Lambeth.