“The parts of society that are harder to see”
July 10, 2014
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Two young Episcopalians work among refugees who find support at The Episcopal Church’s St. Paul’s Within the Walls in Rome.
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Presiding officers to create General Convention committee on marriage
July 10, 2014
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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies sent the follow letter yesterday through the General
Presiding Bishop urges humanitarian response to crisis of children at the border
July 10, 2014
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Our Office of Government Relations is submitting detailed testimony to a United States Senate hearing today, as that chamber prepares to consider a budget request from the President. You may read that testimony here, and I encourage you to share it with your own Representative and Senators here.
Archbishop Welby may dissolve synod if measure to make women bishops fails
July 10, 2014
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Andrew Brown of the Guardian writes: The archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is preparing to drive through legislation to allow women bishops even if it
Is your religious liberty being threatened? Maybe. Maybe not.
July 3, 2014
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Pick one: “My religious liberty is at risk because: (A) I am not allowed to go to a religious service of my own choosing. OR (B) Others are allowed to go to religious services of their own choosing.”
My “affair” with a youth pastor
July 3, 2014
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The survivor of an abusive sexual relationship has written a powerful essay about her experience for On Faith. The pseudonymous Marie Jensen writes:
Diocese of Milwaukee mulls next move on same-sex marriage
July 3, 2014
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When a federal judge in Wisconsin struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriages last month, Episcopal dioceses in the state, none of which were
Do people actually understand what is happening at the Eucharist?
July 3, 2014
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I recently helped facilitated some focus groups in which some of the newer members of an Episcopal community said that they found the liturgy of
Americans have thoroughly mixed attitudes on racial discrimination
June 27, 2014
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But I think that misstates the real finding of Pew’s survey: everyone thinks blacks who can’t get ahead are mostly responsible for their own condition. With the single exception of solid liberals, majorities in every other group believe this by a 2:1 margin or more.
How the poor really live
June 27, 2014
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Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic writes:
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