Bishop Tutu to lead peace mission
September 18, 2007
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Ekklesia reports that a delegation from a group called The Elders will go to Darfur on a peace mission. The Elders are retired statesmen organized
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No line in the sand in New Orleans
September 18, 2007
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“I do not believe,” says Bishop Duncan Gray, “as I’ve said to many of you previously, that this gathering of the House of Bishops is a final ‘line in the sand’ moment. It is a part of a process that will help us to discern, in the words of the Windsor Report, the ‘highest degree of communion possible’ within our Anglican Communion.”
We all need the Anglicans right now
September 18, 2007
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“From where I stand,” says Joan Chittister, “we need those who can develop a model of faith in times of uncertainty in which the tradition is revered and the prophetic is honored. Unless we want to see ourselves go into either tyranny or anarchy, we better pray for the Anglicans so that they can show us how to do that.”
Bishop Jenkins prays for mercy
September 11, 2007
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We in Louisiana have seen and experienced mercy from the hands of many for the past two years. People from radically differing perspectives around sexuality have come together in a mission of mercy, and have found their lives changed and the seeming hot button issues put in the proper perspective. Why can we as Anglicans not demonstrate the same mercy toward one another?
Body Shop founder discovered vitality in religion
September 11, 2007
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Anita Roddick [came to see] the value of spiritual development bringing about material change to the way we live and act – her experience of the annual Greenbelt festival, showed a practical vitality and intellectual energy that was far from the stereotypes of Christianity she had often met, and the stuffiness of the church she had personally encountered.
Dream along with God
September 11, 2007
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The task of theological education really is to help us learn to do theology — to relate our own stories, and the stories of those around us, to the great stories of our faith, so that we may be able to give an account of the faith that is within us. Theological education can bless us with the ability to see the need and hurt and injustice of the world, the ways in which God’s dream is not yet being realized.
Satyagraha and 9/11
September 11, 2007
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Dr Williams compares “the act of nightmare violence” of September 11, 2001 and the chain of retaliation, fear and misery” it unleashed with the public meeting in Johannesburg on September 11, 1906 (attended by people of Muslim, Hindu and Christian faiths) at which Gandhi’s non-violent protest movement – the Satyagraha movement – was born.
Are there left-wing and right-wing brains?
September 11, 2007
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In a simple experiment reported today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.
Episcopalians at Pentagon and 9/11
September 11, 2007
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Episcopalians at the Pentagon began holding services during Lent 1987. The mid-week services were well received, and continued after Easter, with local clergy and military
Bonnie Anderson visits Fort Worth, Bishop displeased
September 9, 2007
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Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church spoke in the Diocese of Fort Worth this weekend at the invitation of
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