The Anglican Church of Canada is producing videos of the Stations of the Cross. Today, the Rev. Scott McLeod reflects on the eighth Station of the Cross: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem. He shares a story of how God worked through a chance encounter with a suffering woman.
The Witherspoon Institute recruited a professor from a major university to carry out a study that was designed to manipulate public policy. In communicating with donors about the research project, Witherspoon’s president clearly expected results unfavorable to the gay-marriage movement.
He said that over 50% of Episcopalians in South Dakota are Lakota, 60% of whom live below the poverty line. Unemployment is as high as 85%. He told several stories of contemporary Lakota women and men in his diocese, modern day Holy Women, Holy Men whose courage, perseverance and amazing generosity in such a difficult context are continually inspiring.
We reaffirmed our belief in the assertions of our amicus brief. We continue to believe that the polity of the Episcopal Church as characterized by the 2009 Bishops’ Statement on Polity is true and correct. We have not in any way backed away from this position. Yes, we acknowledged that it is “likely a minority view.” Indeed, it probably is at this time. But this does not make it any less true.
Nearly half of responding congregations reported budget increases for 2012 compared with 2011. Increases were likely to be allocated toward salaries, outreach programs, mission activities, and revenue-generating activities.
Bishop Ahrens spoke powerfully of her experience as a pastor and church leader in the days following the tragic shootings in Newtown. “There’s no one to impress when your heart is broken,” she said. “The cross reveals violence and speaks forgiveness offering new life. The love revealed in the life and witness of Jesus speaks to a peace.”
Today is the 50th wedding anniversary of Ann and Jim Fontaine. Ann has been a Cafe newsblogger for as long as there has been a
“This legislation will for the first time make gun trafficking a federal crime in order to provide tools to law enforcement to get illegal guns off the streets and away from criminal networks and street gangs. Currently, there is no federal law that defines gun trafficking as a crime.”
Two Episcopal priests are at the forefront of efforts to make Massachusetts schools safer for transgender youth, as you can read in this story from The Boston Globe.
The eminent religion writer Peter Steinfels, formerly of Commonweal and The New York Times returns to the pages of the Catholic magazine with a proposal