If you’re like me there’s no excuse for not making more responsible personal health-care choices. I’m just taking advantage of the system. I would suggest, however, that some personal health-care practices are not due to freedom of choice so much as they are due to a paucity of options. The poor don’t choose to be poor, and many of their options are bad ones.
Universal concerns, not cultural values, may shape kids’ developing notions of right and wrong, writes Bruce Bowers in Science News.
Darwin may have done religion—and God—a favor by revealing a flaw in modern Western faith. Despite our scientific and technological brilliance, our understanding of God is often remarkably undeveloped—even primitive.
Calling access to healthcare a moral and spiritual imperative, Los Angeles faith leaders held a religious service and launched a phone bank Friday to urge congressional leaders to include illegal immigrants in any healthcare reform plan.
There are 1.5 million pairs of shoes sitting idle in American closets. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church aims to put the ones in eastern North Carolina onto the feet of needy people.
You can hear someone named Jim Naughton discuss the importance of using the opportunities that popular culture provides us to speak about our faith in this podcast from the Alban Institute. The peg is the publication of Dan Brown’s new book about the Freemasons.
Alison Flood in The Guardian: He enraged America’s religious right with his portrayal of God as a senile old man in the His Dark Materials
Alberto Cutie talks with Oprah about the experience that led him to the Episcopal Church.
Here is our weekly collection plate of a few of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print.
The Rev. Scott A. Benhase, rector of St. Alban’s Church in Washington, D. C., has been elected Bishop of Georgia on the second ballot.