This advertisement, in which a church reverses its declining membership and solves its budget problems by offering communion-goers Doritos and Pepsi Max, was yanked from the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest.
What concerns me most is that the effort to repeal Health Care Reform is a repudiation of all that is good in and about this country. Repealing it would say, in clear terms, “We don’t care about the least of our brothers and sisters. If you can’t make it on your own, go away.”
No saint claims to be a saint, and neither did you—except in so far as we are all called to be saints. In 1987 when Bob Browne was making the film Return to Hepu, you said to him: “I am just an earthen vessel with God’s treasure inside me.” No saint would claim more than that for herself. Yet here we have an icon of you with a halo.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori sat for an interview with the Houston Chronicle during a recent visit to Texas. As usual, she acquits herself–and represents our church–well.
What, then, is preaching, of which we are to speak? It is not hard to find a definition. Preaching is the communication of truth by man to men. It has in it two essential elements, truth and personality. Neither of those can it spare and still be preaching. The truest truth, the most authoritative statement of God’s will, communicated in any other way than through the personality of brother man to men is not preached truth. Suppose it written on the sky, suppose it embodied in a book which has been so long held in reverence as the direct utterance of God that the vivid personality of the men who wrote its pages has well-nigh faded out of it; in neither of these cases is there any preaching.
A few ago the Governor of a Pakistani province was killed by a Pakistani muslim because he claimed the Governor had committed blasphemy against the
Christians the world over are in the midst of the annual week of prayer and intention for the whole of the Church. This year’s focus
Perhaps the greatest issue that I have with Communion Without Baptism is that too often it is framed in individualistic terms. But the catholic construction of the sacramental life is fundamentally bound up with the connections between the mystical, social, eschatological, Eucharistic, and pneumatic bodies of Christ.
S. Vincent, the most illustrious martyr of the Spanish Church, was born at Saragossa, and suffered in the persecution under Diocletian and Maximinian, A.D. 304. The Governor Datian, after trying persuasion in vain, had recourse to the most horrible torments to subdue S. Vincent’s Faith; but all to no purpose:
On Friday, January 21, 2011, the Hon. John P. Chupp of the 141st District Court, Tarrant County, Texas, granted the Local Episcopal Parties’ and The Episcopal Church’s Motions for Summary Judgments. He denied the Southern Cone parties Motion for a Partial Summary Judgment.