Why do Evangelicals reject climate change?
June 4, 2011
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Why is it so hard to find allies among the largest protestant religious bodies in the US to take action on global climate change? Almost
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Technology and Christian practice
June 4, 2011
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It’s been argued by people this week that we’re moving rapidly into the realm of the cyborgs and androids, living lives that can’t be managed
Barker elected bishop of Nebraska
June 4, 2011
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The Rev. J. Scott Barker, Rector of Christ Church, Warwick, NY was elected the 11th Bishop of Nebraska today on the second ballot in a special election convention held at St. Mark’s Pro-Cathedral in Hastings.
Congratulations Deputy Byron Rushing
June 4, 2011
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On Monday morning, The Honorable Byron Rushing, state legislator in Massachusetts, will be receiving the “Mass History Commendation” award for his work as a historian of slavery. Many of us know Byron, an active Episcopal lay person through his long tenure as a deputy to General Convention.
Fed flag fans fight
June 4, 2011
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The Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond Virginia is flying a rainbow flag in observance of LGBT Pride Month as a symbol of their commitment to “the values of acceptance and inclusion”. A Virginia legislator is calling for its removal arguing, in part, that it supports an act which he says is still a felony in Virginia.
Life in the neutral zone
June 4, 2011
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Choosing a neutral space of “attentive inactivity” provides time to contemplate “the four Ds” endemic to transition: disengagement; disidentification; disenchantment; disorientation. Bridges maintains that honoring the gray in-between time of the neutral zone leads to a thoughtful direction.
An ecumenical council
June 4, 2011
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As regards the initiative for the great event which gathers us here, it will suffice to repeat as historical documentation our personal account of the first sudden bringing up in our heart and lips of the simple words, “Ecumenical Council.” We uttered those words in the presence of the Sacred College of Cardinals on that memorable January 25, 1959
Bearing Christ in life and death
June 3, 2011
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There is no doubt that the Son of God took our human nature into so close a union with himself that one and the same Christ is present, not only in the firstborn of all creation, but in all his saints as well. And so all that the Son of God did and taught for the world’s reconciliation is not for us simply a matter of past history. Here and now we experience his power at work among us.
Courting the Holy Spirit by practicing retail politics
June 2, 2011
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Like most Episcopal Church elections, it has been a homey affair, featuring five nominees touring the diocese on a bus, visiting parish halls, a school gymnasium and a retirement community where they gave brief talks, answered questions, and engaged voters in a dance of mutual ingratiation.
Transfiguration of matter
June 2, 2011
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So that he might fill the universe the Christ was emptied to the last drop of self. But in his ascended glory he remains man. Dare we believe that? If incarnation did something to God, ascension did something to matter.
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