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Instant—and very reluctant—pop stars

June 28, 2008 No Comments

The Cistercian monks of Heiligenkreuz, Austria, made headlines when they were signed to produce an album of Gregorian Chants and again when the album was released in Europe last month and entered the charts in the top 10 in several countries (and at No. 1 in Austria). They are now coping with a flood of publicity that’s interfering with their traditionally contemplative life, and have had to put one monk in charge of public relations.

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Helping the Hopeline

June 28, 2008 No Comments

Earlier this month, a fellow social media producer from another corner of the blogosphere shared a draft of a video he was working on to bring attention to the 10th anniversary of 1-800-SUICIDE, also known as the Hopeline. The final version came out earlier this week, and in it, Kristin Brooks Hope Center founder Reese Butler talks about why he created the Hopeline, and some of the challenges the organization now faces as a privately funded charity operation entering its second decade of connecting callers with, as he puts it, help and hope.

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GAFCON/Lambeth Update

June 22, 2008 No Comments

Today today was a big day for pronouncements in the Anglican Communion, including publication of a statement about the Archbishop of Caterbury’s hope for Lambeth, an adress aby the Bishop of Jerusalem asking GAFCON participants to show humility and seek unity, and an adress by Archbishop Peter Akinola that was included pointed attacks on the Archbishop of Caterbury.

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Peter Singer on giving boldly

June 22, 2008 3 Comments

Jesus said that we should give alms in private rather than when others are watching. A substantial body of current psychological research points against Jesus’ advice. One of the most significant factors determining whether people give to charity is their beliefs about what others are doing. Those who make it known that they give to charity increase the likelihood that others will do the same.

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Bishop Nazir-Ali may not attend Lambeth

June 22, 2008 No Comments

Relying on statements from his “friends”, the Sunday Telegraph reports that Rt. Rev. Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester will decline an invitation to attend Lambeth next month, and that others will join him.

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Peggy Noonan’s final word on Tim Russert

June 22, 2008 No Comments

In a way, the world is a great liar. It shows you it worships and admires money, but at the end of the day it doesn’t. It says it adores fame and celebrity, but it doesn’t, not really. The world admires, and wants to hold on to, and not lose, goodness. It admires virtue. At the end it gives its greatest tributes to generosity, honesty, courage, mercy, talents well used, talents that, brought into the world, make it better. That’s what it really admires.

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More on “The Big Sort”

June 22, 2008 5 Comments

Where you live is partly determined by where you can afford to live, of course. But the “Big Sort” does not seem to be driven by economic factors. Income is a poor predictor of party preference in America; cultural factors matter more. For Americans who move to a new city, the choice is often not between a posh neighbourhood and a run-down one, but between several different neighbourhoods that are economically similar but culturally distinct.

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GAFCON: What’s that again?

June 21, 2008 No Comments

The age-old tomato/tomahto refrain comes to mind as GAFCON speakers assert that they are working toward a way to “sustain the highest level of communion and work well together,” not toward a schism. The reason they are dodging that, as some of the metaphors Archbishop Peter Jensen is using indicate implicitly, is that they are operating under the belief that the schism has already happened.

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Finding a second career in the church

June 21, 2008 No Comments

We all know plenty of people who followed a vocational path to a second “career.” The Wall Street Journal today profiles Linda Watt, Chief Operating Officer of the Episcopal Church and a former foreign service officer and amabassador to Panama, in its Second Acts Column. Noting that the two paths are not as disparate as they might seem, the article examines Watt’s background in-depth; Watt also shares her tips for vocationally-oriented career changers.

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Jefferts Schori at S.D. reservation this weekend

June 21, 2008 1 Comment

This weekend, about 3,000 Native American Episcopalians and others are expected at the Niobrara Convocation as Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori leads the closing Eucharist. In an interview with the local paper, Jefferts Schori also makes a pithy observation about the matters dominating the headlines with regard to the Anglican Communion.

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