The Archive
Author: Jim Naughton
Occupy, Trinity and the meaning of “private property”
[N]o Christian church is – on the very terms of its theological existence – permitted to fall back on the mere invocation of “private property” without also a theological conversation about the spiritual significance of what that concept means and how it is being used.
Episcopalians and the “new evangelicals”
Last weekend my wife and I attended a young adult Bible study at our new church. We recently moved back to Boston from New York City and, for the first time in all of our moves (and there have been plenty) we found a church on our first try. There was no church shopping or denomination hopping. We went straight for the nearest Episcopal church, St. James’ Church in Cambridge.
Dioceses respond cautiously to latest letter from Church of Sudan
Episcopal dioceses that have relationships with the Episcopal Church of Sudan have begun to respond to a letter recently released by Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, in which he rescinded an invitation to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to visit with his church.
Giles Fraser looks back without anger
He resigned because “I couldn’t survive at this place if we went along with an injunction to kick the protesters out”. What he said at the time was that he did not want to see “Dale Farm on the steps of St Paul’s”.
A tough weekend for the Episcopal Church
I can’t determine from the distance at which I am watching this unfold whether Trinity is actually offering real aid to Occupy or engaging in the Lady Bountiful behavior that earns the parish perhaps more credit that it strictly deserves. But I know at least a little bit about crisis communications, and that the way in which organizations speak and act during crises tend to reveal—often inadvertently—their deepest values.
The Rev. John Merz, Occupy-arrestee, writes his bishop
They never intended to connect, listen to and support this movement in any real way. It is a re hash of their 9/11 record and as many know all too well, locally in times of social crisis, they do the right thing only if self preservation (image) requires it and even then only haltingly.
Bishop Packard in the paddy wagon talking Occupy v. Trinity
Here is a new video of Bishop George Packard in the paddy wagon speaking with other Occupy Wall Street protestors who were arrested after scaling a fence and entering Trinity Wall Street’s property at Duarte Square.
The whole world was watching
The mainstream media paid quite a bit of attention to the confrontation yesterday between Trinity Wall Street and Occupy Wall Street.
Can any sitting President join a church in DC?
Amy Sullivan, writing in Time Magazine, points out that there are reasons beyond the obvious and frequently cited ones of personal security and disruption of the worship service. By simply attending a congregation, for instance, it may be understood by some that a President in endorsing a position he or she doesn’t intend to endorse.