Thomas Merton’s gift
September 27, 2008
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Author: Jim Naughton
Called to leave
September 27, 2008
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I recently left a church I love. Not for any sensationalist reason, but for the simple fact that God was calling me elsewhere and it was time for me to go. The fact that I left for the right reason didn’t make it any easier. It was a church that felt like my church, and a group of people who had quickly become my people. Nothing about leaving was easy, and the hardest part of the whole thing was having to say goodbye.
Birth is windfall
September 27, 2008
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The first time I read this parable [of the vineyard owner and his workers], I must admit it struck me as being rampantly unfair. I found myself saying, “But that is not just!” After some reflection, it dawned on me that I was starting at the wrong place.
The Episcopal Church: excelling in irrelevance?
September 26, 2008
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The church stands unprepared to deal with economic hard times; it spends unconscionable amounts of money and human resources on propping up failing congregations that have no sense of mission; it eschews any prophetic stance against a corrupt government and a moribund Congress; and it seems to have no sensitivity to the plight of its own members.
Partakers of the Spirit
September 26, 2008
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Andrewes declares that on the mystery of the incarnatio Dei, the incarnation of God, there follows a corresponding mystery, the inspiration hominis, the in-spiration of man. The once for all event of the birth of Christ finds its fulfillment in the ever-renewed process of the coming of the Spirit.
Making no inroads
September 25, 2008
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Mark Silk writes: The news is beginning to sink in that Obama has not managed to change the voting preferences of the most religious white voters, evangelicals especially. Pastor Dan has details.
Interfaith Alliance pushes non-partisan pulpit pledge
September 25, 2008
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The Interfaith Alliance is calling on clergy to stand up for religious freedom by signing a pledge to uphold certain standards during the election season. We ask clergy to pledge: to educate members of our congregation about how our faith relates to issues of the day; to refrain from endorsing any candidate, either explicitly or implicitly, in or on behalf of our house of worship; to…
You make the call
September 25, 2008
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The guys at the Dallas Morning News’ religion blog aren’t saying whether the Kenyan preacher with an interest in witchcraft who prayed over Sarah Palin is a “problem or not a problem.” But they have reproduced the evidence so viewers can decide for themselves.
English archbishops on Marx and the markets
September 25, 2008
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Rowan Williams has written a searching moral examination of the free market financial system which has been badly caricatured in initial news reports. It contains
Restoring the primal vision
September 25, 2008
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Let us examine one particular aspect of asceticism in the Christian Orthodox spiritual practice, namely fasting. We Orthodox fast from all dairy and meat products for half of the entire year, almost as if in an effort to reconcile one half of the year with the other, secular time with the time of the kingdom.
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