The opening musical number of “Biblical Girl” is entitled “Made in the Image,” a duet between equally plucky Lilith and Eve, Adam’s first two wives. Eve croons that in the Garden of Eden everything was fine. Then, “something I ate set fire to my imagination.”
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Preparing for General Convention and overwhelmed reading the Blue Book? Two deputies have offered “cliffs notes” style commentaries and reflections on the content and resolutions
The Rev. Mote Magomba of Tanzania speaks about his ministry, and his change of heart on LGBT issues during the Chicago Consultation’s gathering last fall
From a press release from
The cathedral has denied that they gave the police permission to remove Christians who were dragged from the steps as they knelt in prayer during the eviction of the Occupy camp on 28 February [but] Adrian Leppard,the City of London Police Commissioner, has stated in a letter to London Assembly member Jenny Jones: “Permission was given by St Paul’s to clear the steps”.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and Archbishop of York have issued a
The principal reasons given by people who leave the church to become Protestant are that their “spiritual needs were not being met” in the Catholic church (71 percent) and they “found a religion they like more” (70 percent). Eighty-one percent of respondents say they joined their new church because they enjoy the religious service and style of worship of their new faith.
If the House of Bishops can’t bring itself to wholeheartedly endorse women’s ordination, I think I will feel I have to vote against the measure at final approval, rather than vote for enshrining theological incoherence and gender discrimination in canon law.