Episcopal Cafe – Page 87

Speaking to the Soul: Go and do likewise

July 5, 2016 3 Comments

We have all been each of the four people in the story—including the man who had been beaten, robbed, and left for dead by robbers and by the passersby.

Speaking to the Soul: Go in Peace

July 3, 2016 1 Comment

We are all doing the best we can, and that’s enough.

Speaking to the Soul: Where is the Love?

July 2, 2016 No Comments

What message am I giving when I run somebody down verbally or mentally, or look with disfavor on certain people who support things that I find unimportant or detrimental to the common good.

Speaking to the Soul: Refusing the Robe

June 30, 2016 3 Comments

God is the silence at the center of activity, the knowingness that invites and redeems. Find and listen, therefore, to the guest within who refuses to put on the robe of expectations.

Speaking to the Soul: Creative Love

June 28, 2016 No Comments

Jesus reminds us that being apart from creation does not absolve him (and by extension us) from a responsibility to it. He demonstrates that responsibility by following through with taking up the cross, dying, and rising again

Speaking to the Soul: It’s hard to say goodbye

June 26, 2016 3 Comments

Saying goodbye to the old ways can be hard. But, like Elijah, real leaders raise up their successors, offering holy friendship, support, and encouragement to try something new!

Speaking to the Soul: Songs of the People

June 25, 2016 6 Comments

Music is part of our lives, and part of our faith tradition. Johnson understood this as he spoke of the songs of his people, the music of unheralded bards whose names are known to God alone but whose music still echoes in our hearts and minds.

Church leaders from around the world to speak at Canadian General Synod

June 23, 2016 2 Comments

Representatives from at least six church organizations—including Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Archbishop Josiah Atkins Idowu-Fearon are expected to speak at General Synod