Episcopalians blogging: Death of bin Laden
May 3, 2011
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Bishops, clergy and lay leaders reflect on the death of Osama bin Laden
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Seminary: waste of time and money?
May 3, 2011
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I’ve known scores of seminary students. Many have the natural leadership gifts to be pastors, but many do not. I’ve seen the ones who do not jumping through the bureaucratic hoops with a wife and children in tether, sacrifices made, poverty borne with grace, and then heartbreak.
Dioceses respond to storms in South and Southeast
April 28, 2011
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“After this sort of traumatic event, people deeply need spiritual support,” said Mears. “Local churches, like St. Thomas’, can provide a safe space to talk through the grief and loss that people are feeling, and the churches can also work with families to meet their immediate physical needs. Pastoral care and immediate relief ideally go hand-in-hand.”
10 minute rule: if the church is on fire
April 26, 2011
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… in the final 10 minutes before a service starts, try to resist peppering your priest with questions or reports about some failure of performance – people or facilities (or both).
What would Jesus cut?
April 26, 2011
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Is Jesus the Democrats’ secret weapon? Brad Martin, writing at “What Would Jesus Cut?” movement from the political left:
Uganda may drop death penalty on anti-gay bill
April 26, 2011
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The Ugandan parliamentarian behind an anti-homosexual bill that attracted worldwide condemnation says the most controversial part of the proposed legislation — the death penalty provision — is likely to be dropped. David Bahati says if the committee the bill currently sits before recommends that the provision be removed, that he would concede the issue.
ABC on Narnia
April 26, 2011
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These lectures will look at some of the most important themes in the novels and ask how far Lewis succeeds in giving new life to traditional Christian ideas about sacrifice, forgiveness and resurrection, doubt and faith, the divine presence in Jesus and the final goals of human life.
More education = less religion?
April 26, 2011
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An additional year of education leads to a 4-percentage-point decline in the likelihood that an individual identifies with any religious tradition; the estimates suggest that increases in schooling can explain most of the large rise in non-affiliation in Canada in recent decades.
Relapse and Recovery: A Tale of Two Prostitutes
April 26, 2011
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Magdalene is about work — not miracles, not fairytales. Seventy-five percent of its graduates make it.
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