Anglican summit on crisis in the Horn of Africa
August 5, 2011
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While news reports are just starting to give a sense of the scope of the disaster unfolding right now in the nations of eastern Africa,
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Wounded by God
August 4, 2011
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What is exceedingly strange about the story of Jacob and the angel is that most of us don’t think of God as our adversary–certainly not one we could fight with and win. Moreover, for many of us, our relationship with God is a place of safety, comfort, and security. We are wounded enough already!
Bishop Parsley joins suit against Alabama immigration law
August 1, 2011
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Like Arizona’s controversial SB1070, the Alabama measure aims to identify, prosecute and deport undocumented persons. It empowers law enforcement officials to check the immigration status of people they lawfully stop and whom they suspect are in the country illegally and mandates that prospective employers use E-verify, the U.S. government’s electronic verification system for employers to check the legal status of potential workers.
PBS examines mainline clergy wellness
August 1, 2011
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What makes the clergy vocation and occupation really different is that you work for God ultimately. If that work environment isn’t meaningful to you, you’re doing a lot of things like, you know, doing budgets or checking spelling on a bulletin, or office management, that’s going to really hit home, because you think your job should be about God.
The Church of England in all its glory and complexity
August 1, 2011
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His predecessors are always referred to by their surnames: Ramsey, Coggan, Runcie, Carey, making them sound like the defensive line-up for a lower-division football team. This one is always “Rowan”. That may be the new informality. It may be because most of us only know of one other Rowan. It may also reflect a genuine affection. But is affection enough to save the Church of England?
Christians unite! These marathoners must be stopped
August 1, 2011
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Sarah Morice-Brubaker argues that as citizens we have a perfect right to tell other citizens what to do with their bodies, especially if what they are doing goes against God’s design, and is likely to cost us money. Which is why the nation must unite against the scourge of … marathon running.
Is Uganda’s “Kill the Gays bill” coming back?
August 1, 2011
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We don’t expect Anglican leaders like Rowan Williams to be able to stop this sort of thing singlehandedly. But isn’t it clear by now that the Anglican Communion’s policy of treating those who want to ordain LGBT people as though they are more dangerous than those who want to imprison or kill them, has delivered us to an ugly place?
“A coarsening of attitudes” toward the young, the old and the poor
August 1, 2011
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The church does not accept the peculiar American premise that the poor are generally better off left to their own devices, lest their dignity be degraded by paternalism—a high-sounding slogan that can be used to abdicate collective responsibility.
The hummingbirds of public life
July 31, 2011
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I find it fun to think of our members of Congress, and especially in the House of Representatives, like hummingbirds. They are, as a class, creatures focused intensely on a short season – from one election to the next. And all too many seem to have staked out “territories” in the “marketplace of ideas,” territories that they defend as if there were no tomorrow, and not enough of today to go around.
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