The Archive
Author: Episcopal Cafe
Rebooting the Anglican Communion
Can African churches in fact use the present crisis as an opportunity to rediscover the sources of their inner security? …did Stott not offer a more generous ecclesial vision, and a more charitable way to speak the truth in love, than does GAFCON? …In what ways should American Christians moderate their imperialist ambitions to set standards and offer solutions to the rest of the world?
Plea from South Pacific: do something about climate change
“We need to pray that we will be empowered to speak clearly to our elected agents in government who make decisions about climate change.”
Origami saints
Historically, on All Saints Day, we focus on the “perfection” of the saints–that they are models of holiness, and we feel we can never attain that kind of perfection. But the more I read about the lives of the saints, the more I recognize they were wildly, crazily IM-perfect.
Cutting up the Bible for yourself
Granted, our initial attempts at regular Bible reading may feel clumsy, and our ability to cut into it incisively at first might seem a little tentative, but a good commentary, study Bible, or study group can act as a whetstone for the knife edge of our spiritual imaginations.
Saturday October 29
He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is
Human microphone: liturgy and pedagogy
By Donald Schell Just what concrete steps should we take to make a new economic system that’s NOT- – ruled by a few – economically
Jesus and Abba
by Deirdre Good Inspite of the fact that scholars since 1988 have made it clear that Abba isn’t Daddy, preachers and theologians continue to assert