The Episcopal Church began evangelical work among the Chinese in the Diocese of California in the mid 1850’s. It began to bear fruit by the turn of the century when Deaconess Emma Drant came to San Francisco and organized a Chinese worshiping group in 1905 and established True Sunshine,
“The proposed covenant is a complex document that could have a major impact on the Episcopal Church and its many vital and longstanding relationships within the wider Anglican Communion,” the Rev. Lowell Grisham said. “We are grateful that well-respected theologians, clergy and lay leaders were willing to analyze it for us.”
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Most missionary accounts of Christian conversions among natives are written as celebrations of achievement—that is, the acquisition of one more soul for the proselytizing enterprise. Pandita Ramabai’s story was an exception to the principle of missionary biographies,
The Word became flesh in Jesus Christ in order that we might see more clearly the connection that God yearns for us to have with one another and with God. The Internet offers wonderful opportunities for connection, but they always come attached with the danger of isolation.
To sink in the quicksands of fatalism is both intellectually and psychologically stifling. Because freedom is part of the essence of man, the fatalist, by denying freedom, becomes a puppet, not a person.
Amid life’s changes and uncertainties we long for some clarity of vision. In the midst of perplexities we hope to see and to know what is to be prized above all—what is worth life’s service.
An unlikely hero has decided to intervene at the last moment to save an important collection of religious paintings that were planned to be sold
With all the media coverage on the upcoming royal wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William, there’s not been much of a religious angle to
There’s an old Christian line of thinking that allows for the moral use of limited violence in certain specific situation. The concepts are usually collected