Frank Lockwood of Bible Belt Blogger thinks there is something significant about the fact that language about governmental transparency has disappeared from the introductory copy on the IamEpiscopalian Web site. Mark Harris does not.
A diverse group of U.S. Christian leaders has written to President Barack Obama following his historic June 4 speech in Cairo saying they stand ready to support “robust U.S. peacemaking efforts to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
The vote is flashed up on the tote board — 198 FOR marriage equality, 176 AGAINST. The place goes berzerk! The gallery — which is close to HALF made up of young people under the age of 25 — is uncontrollable. The Speaker of the House, also a woman, doesn’t even try to stop it.
The House of Bishops Theology Committee has retained Dwight K. Schrute to help screen candidates for the secret theology committee according to interview notes leaked to Episcopal Café.
The Vision Before Us, subtitled ‘The Kyoto Report of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations 2000-2008’, records the Commission’s work of maintaining an overview of the Anglican Communion’s engagement with Christians of other traditions, and of giving encouragement and advice to the ecumenical activities of the Communion and the Provinces.
The Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester cannot receive enough votes from standing committees in the Episcopal Church to be consecrated as bishop of Northern Michigan, according to a tally kept by an Arkansas reporter who has been in contact with all 110 dioceses as well as the Convocation in Europe.
There are two remarkable things about Marilynne Robinson, who won the Orange Prize for fiction: she’s a very good writer, and she’s a very serious Christian. Her two most recent novels. Gilead and Home, have retold the story of the Prodigal Son from different viewpoints, set in a small town on the Iowa prairie in 1956.
Dan Gilgoff of US News reports on a Pew Survey in which the percentage of respondents who listed “moral values” as their top concern plummeted
The real questions underlying our state budget deliberations are: How will we make possible for every Ohioan the opportunity to engage in work that makes a contribution to society and provides income sufficient to support family and household? How will we take care that no child will go to bed hungry or go to school without the preschool preparation necessary to learn and grow?
What is a STORY DRIVE? It is a time to collect stories about all of the interesting ways that Episcopalians are involved in public policy advocacy. These stories could be about big life changing actions, seemingly small moments, or anything in between.