The Court case in Pennsylvania in the dispute between the Episcopal diocese and parts of the Anglican Church in North American (ACNA) who left the
Last year the Café and other sources detailed the saga of a the Florida pastor who announced that he was going to burn copies of
During the twenty-six years of my border Missionary life, I have been to the East but three times, so that my personal intercourse with Eastern Churchmen is very limited. It was the Nashotah Mission which first inaugurated the primitive form of Associate Missionary work for America,
I acknowledge as fully as any one can that commerce is an instrument in the Divine education and that if there is, lying at the root of Society, the recognition of the unity of men in Christ, the actual intercourse of men in different countries will bring out that belief into clearness and fulness, and remove the limitation and narrowness which arise from the confusion between Christ Himself and our notions about Him.
But grief and pain are not burdens you get to put down before they have lived out their life in you. Not-knowing was the shoes I walked in; solitude was the path itself. There may be distraction in this life, but there is ultimately not escape, and on the Camino there was not even much distraction.
As the Tabernacle of God was, so the Scriptures of God are of this Mosaick work: The body of the Scriptures hath in it limbs taken from other bodies; and in the word of God, are the words of other men, other authors, inlaid and inserted. But, this work is onely where the Holy Ghost is the Workman
Every individual instinctively strives for happiness. This desire has been implanted in our nature by the Creator Himself, and therefore it is not sinful. But it is important to understand that in this temporary life it is impossible to find full happiness, because that comes from God and cannot be attained without Him. Only He, who is the ultimate Good and the source of all good, can quench our thirst for happiness.
“We don’t make time for God because we’re too busy with email and Facebook”. This type of observation and these gentle admonishments are met in the congregations in which I sit with knowing smiles and nods and always at least one, “A-men!” But, I don’t know. I think God loves Facebook.
Sweet Bird! up earliest in the morn,
Up earliest in the year,
Far in the quiet mist are borne
Thy matins soft and clear.
There is a feeling here, hard to miss even for a visitor, that an era is ending in South Africa, that the immediate post-apartheid period is drawing to a close, that the great leaders of that time are nearing the ends of their lives, and that the nation is looking with hope and trepidation into the great what’s next. One senses this especially in the emphasis on recapturing a sense of purpose and reclaiming a sense of responsibility for the future that is theme or subtext through numerous public campaigns and events.