How old is too old for ordination?
May 13, 2013
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Shane Raynor offers a podcast commentary on the question of whether the Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church is making a mistake in discouraging
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Bishop Rickel and Doctor Seuss
May 13, 2013
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At the Episcopal Church Building Fund‘s annual symposium, Bishop Greg Rickel of the Diocese of Olympia discussed some of the church’s problems. This excerpt begins
Eboo Patel on the essence of interfaith cooperation
May 8, 2013
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Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith Youth Core writing for Religion Dispatches says:
Marriage equality is coming to Delaware
May 7, 2013
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From Zack Ford at Think Progress: Just now, the Delaware Senate voted 12-9, to approve marriage equality legislation (HB 75), guaranteeing that Delaware will become
How to pray when you are angry with God
May 6, 2013
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The Rev. Deacon Ian Punnett of Minneapolis recently discussed his new book, How to Pray when You Are Pissed at God: Or Anyone Else for
On the self-caricaturing concerns of high-flying parents
May 6, 2013
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A task force was formed to investigate the safety of the neighborhood after at least one mother fretted that her child had seen the upper outlines of a homeless man’s backside en route to a playground. The complaint became known as the butt-crack e-mail.
Diocese of Los Angeles wins another legal victory
May 6, 2013
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This is the fourth and final case involving congregations in which a majority of members, having voted to disaffiliate from the Diocese of Los Angeles and the Episcopal Church, sought to retain Church property for themselves. In each instance, however, courts have ruled that the property rightfully belongs to the Diocese and Episcopal Church.
Reaching out to young adults: What are we doing right?
May 6, 2013
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Sociologist Christian Smith wrote in his book Souls in Transition that the study found mainline Protestants were “… relatively good at attracting new emerging adults who grew up in other religious traditions…’”
Former Yale Div dean faces charges for performing same-sex wedding
May 6, 2013
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The New York Times reports that the Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Ogletree, 79, a Methodist minister and former dean of Yale Divinity School faces a
PB, other bishops join “climate revival” event in Boston
April 29, 2013
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Climate Revival 2013, organized by New England Regional Environmental Ministries on Saturday featured a sermon by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and became a Twitter
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