John B. Chilton – Page 40

Conciliation meeting on Fort Worth,
Quincy suits set for Jan 8, 9

January 7, 2013 No Comments

The meeting concerns complaints from the Diocese of Quincy Standing Committee against Bishops Peter Beckwith (Springfield), Bruce MacPherson (Western Louisiana) and Edward Salmon (South Carolina), and from the Diocese of Fort Worth Standing Committee and an individual complainant against Bishops Maurice Benitez (Dallas), John Howe (Central Florida), Paul Lambert (Dallas), William Love (Albany), Daniel Martins (Springfield), Edward Salmon (South Carolina), and James Stanton (Dallas).

The church’s generational logjam

January 7, 2013 2 Comments

We can no longer afford to lump olders together and youngers together. They are distinct groups with their own needs, styles, cultural references, and spiritualities.

How much is enough?

January 7, 2013 1 Comment

Working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hard-heartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition…so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery.

Holding church services in secular spaces

January 7, 2013 21 Comments

If history is any guide, the new generation will find and express an authentic and compelling interpretation of the ancient faith, and American politics and culture will be shaped in large measure by the answers the millennials find.

Epiphanies for The Epiphany

January 6, 2013 No Comments

James Joyce: By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself.

There are no gay people in Uganda, and more on homosexuality and the African church

January 6, 2013 7 Comments

One of the more inventive analysis of Uganda’s dreadful anti-gay legislation, which the country’s parliament seems to dangle over the heads of the international community

How seminarians are using social media in their work

January 5, 2013 2 Comments

The Rev. Kyle Oliver, digital missioner and learning lab coordinator in the Center for the Ministry of Teaching at Virginia Theological Seminary passes on a collection he put together that gives us a glimpse of how students at the seminary are “learning to use social media to tell the story of how they’ve been seeking and serving during their formation as church leaders.”

Gun cult?

January 5, 2013 2 Comments

Aa child in the United States is 12 times more likely to die from a gunshot wound than in 25 other industrial nations combined.

Bishop Gene Robinson retires today

January 5, 2013 2 Comments

The Rt. Rev. Rob Hirschfeld becomes Bishop of New Hampshire today as Bishop Gene Robinson retires. We haven’t prepared a full retrospective on Gene’s remarkable career, but want to say this much: he is a major figure in the recent religious history of the United States and the wider Anglican Communion, and if you care about fairness and equality, you owe him your thanks.

Top ten developments in religion and politics in 2012

January 3, 2013 No Comments

Using traditional models, most polling firms underestimated millennial turnout; this generation is sending analysts back to the drawing board to understand both their style of political engagement and a new generation of “values voters.”

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Author: John B. Chilton

Conciliation meeting on Fort Worth,
Quincy suits set for Jan 8, 9

The church’s generational logjam

How much is enough?

Holding church services in secular spaces

Epiphanies for The Epiphany

There are no gay people in Uganda, and more on homosexuality and the African church

How seminarians are using social media in their work

Gun cult?

Bishop Gene Robinson retires today

Top ten developments in religion and politics in 2012

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