McDonald’s “Come as you are” ad
June 7, 2010
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A McDonald’s ad featuring a gay teenager, running on French television, has generated a few spates in this country. What do you make of it?
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Author: Jim Naughton
The disinvitations arrive
June 7, 2010
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Last Thursday I sent letters to members of the Inter Anglican ecumenical dialogues who are from the Episcopal Church informing them that their membership of these dialogues has been discontinued.
Dilemmas for Rowan Williams, and for us
June 7, 2010
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We have to be very careful; the clean break that could be easy for us to contemplate might well betray our GLBT comrades in the Global South. We should take our stand explicitly with them, come what may–and that may mean enduring humiliations from Williams et al. We should not care; taking a stand with them would be worth it.
Diocese dedicates new Bishop Walker School
June 7, 2010
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The Diocese of Washington dedicated the new home of the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys last night. Emily Miller of the Georgetown Dish has the story, and some very cute pictures:
Nurturing an independent church
June 7, 2010
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This Mission was begun in 1889 by two young American priests, sent out by the American Church Missionary Society (since merged in the “Board of Missions”). They buried themselves in the interior of Southern Brazil and set themselves to acquire a thorough mastery of the language, and of the modes of thought and life of the people.
Weep not
June 6, 2010
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The dead man was being buried, and many friends were conducting him to his tomb. Christ, the life and resurrection, meets him there. He is the Destroyer of death and of corruption. He is the One in whom we live and move and are.
The end of sex as we know it?
June 6, 2010
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It’s worth noting that many dystopian novels take place in societies where the connection between sex and procreation has been completely severed. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, for example, sex is encouraged, even for the young, as a social activity, and children are manufactured in a process designed for efficiency and the propagation of traits that support a consumer society.
Falls Church priest says repeal DADT
June 5, 2010
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The Rev. Michael Pipkin, former military chaplain and current priest-in-charge at Falls Church Episcopal on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. He takes to task “some military
Al and Tipper and the greatest divorcing cohort ever
June 5, 2010
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Medical advances mean that today’s aging baby boomers are the first generation to find themselves approaching retirement age both healthy and with decades of living to go. With this longer time horizon, they may think it is worth searching for Mr. or Mrs. Right-for-the-rest-of-my-life, rather than settling with whoever was right for them forty years ago.
Missionary baptisms
June 5, 2010
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In comparing the eighth-century Ordo XI with the earlier Gelasian Sacramentary that reflects sixth-century liturgical practice, a conflicting tendency is apparent. On the one hand, the eighth-century liturgical revisers show their reluctance to discard venerable rituals and prayers, which terminates in ritual conflation and elaboration.
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