Padré Alberto: Churches need to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, too
April 18, 2011
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In column for AOL Noticias, Father Alberto Cutíe praises the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and says:
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A new model for Christian education
April 18, 2011
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Judy Valente of the PBS program Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, profiles Holy Family School in Chicago. Founded in 1985 as a small Lutheran school, it flourishes today as Holy Family Ministries, a nonprofit social services center and an Episcopal charity, as well as a Christian school.
Local woman makes good!
April 18, 2011
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Cafe blogger Ann Fontaine’s essay about Christian seders is featured in Cathy Grossman’s article on the same topic in USA Today.
Sentamu asked to condemn anti-gay violence in Uganda
April 18, 2011
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Activists are calling on the Ugandan-born Archbishop of York to condemn antigay violence in light of the murder of Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato in January.
Waging war unjustly
April 18, 2011
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Bishop George Bell was such an impressive and persistent voice against the “carpet bombing” of German towns — think Dresden — that I wish he were alive today to question America’s use of unmanned drones, piloted from thousands of miles away, to attack targets that are by nature uncertain and sometimes involve targeted assassination from the air.
Omaha, an interfaith mecca (you should pardon the pun)
April 18, 2011
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Don’t look now, but Omaha, Nebraska is blazing a trail in interfaith relationships. The Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska, Temple Israel and the American Institute of Islamic Studies and Culture, have launched the Tri-Faith Initiative, and are planning to build a religious neighborhood which will house a mosque, a temple and a church.
Is the Episcopal Church going the way of the Grange?
April 18, 2011
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Unless TEC reverses the decline, TEC will soon become a remnant numbering in the tens of thousands. When that happens, the media will not care, and few non-Episcopalians will even notice, what the Episcopal Church says or does. TEC will no longer be a vital incarnation of God’s love in Christ.
The fragrance of love
April 18, 2011
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Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.
Hastening toward his passion
April 17, 2011
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Let us go together to meet Christ on the Mount of Olives. Today he returns from Bethany and proceeds of his own free will toward his holy and blessed passion, to consummate the mystery of our salvation. He who came down from heaven to raise us from the depths of sin, to raise us with himself, we are told in Scripture, above every sovereignty, authority and power, and every other name that can be named, now comes of his own free will to make his journey to Jerusalem.
Science and religion in conflict? Maybe not so much.
April 16, 2011
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James Hannam, a expert in the History of Science, points out that the controversy over this year’s Templeton prize presumes that there’s a fundamental distinction between scientific and religious thought. According to Hannam that distinction doesn’t exist.
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