When asked what Anglicans stand for, he suggests the proper answer is, “Yes, here are our articles, but here is our Prayer Book as well—come and pray with us, come and worship with us, and that is how you will understand what we stand for.” That is, what Anglicans stand for is found in an experience of common worship, not a historically limited document.
I have heard of an experiment in meditation. For a certain number of days, some years ago, a group of people made a circle around the city of Washington and meditated continually. Gathered unknown to itself within this circle of loving kindness, Washington changed. The statistics for that period in the city showed a remarkable and unprecedented decrease in violence and crime.
The Primates meeting in Dublin focused on the role of the Primates meeting, described in the Windsor Report and the Anglican Covenant as one of
During his annual address to Diocesan Convention this weekend, Bishop Howe announced that he would be ending his time as bishop of Central Florida in 2012 and called for the election of a coadjuto
Do we worship God or the words about God? Is the Bible the Word of God, or is that Jesus? Christians have been working out
This morning brings news that the most recent conversations among the Primates meeting in Dublin concern the question of whether there is an Anglican Church or are we “a communion of churches”? There’s much more to the answer of that question than mere linguistic style.
Saint Andrei Rublev was born about 1360 and died in 1430. He was a monk throughout his adult life, first at the Holy Trinity Monastery and later at the Andronikov Monastery in Moscow, where he was buried. He is remembered as being shy and calm, devoted to divine services, meditation and icon painting.
How many times to we go to the ecclesiastical grocery store to buy our quick-rise “yeast” program off the shelf – packaged and guaranteed to deliver? And how often are we disappointed that our efforts produce a ho-hum spiritual bread devoid of the joy of labor well done, of prayerful work committed over a long period?
Godhead here in hiding Whom I do adore
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
See, Lord, at Thy service low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God Thou art.
I want to hear the voices of women
Reverberate around the world
Not the cries of the mourner and the victim only
Those too, of course
But also the articulate agendas of women’s passions
For a well, whole and flourishing world.