In anticipation of All Saints Day, we present The All Saints Rap, written by the youth group at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, in Mill Valley, California, where Café contributor the Rev. Richard Helmer is rector. The vocal is by Willie Van Doren, Our Saviour’s youth minister. Music by Dow Brain.
Many congregations in the Diocese of Chichester this morning will be attending mass at which their presiding priest is a gay man who may or may not be in the closet, may or may not be sexually active or celibate, may or may not have a partner. Eric Kemp, the previous diocesan bishop provided a refuge in Chichester for priests opposed to the ordination of women, many of whom, inevitably, were and are gay.
I trust that our friends at a distance, and now in opposition to us, will most seriously review their judgment, and inquire whether the evils resulting from a war to sustain their wishes and opinions as to a single Confederacy, will not far exceed those apprehended from the establishment of a second—an event far more certain than the result of the American Revolution at the time of its occurrence.
I give my permission to the Church of St John the Evangelist, Ottawa to begin offering a rite of blessing to those same-sex couples civilly married where at least one party is baptized, utilizing the rite of blessing for civil marriages found in the Book of Occasional Celebrations, published by the Anglican Church of Canada.
Brain scans of people who believe in God have found further evidence that religion involves neurological regions vital for social intelligence.In other words, whether or not God or Gods exist, religious belief may have been quite useful in shaping the human mind’s evolution.
Brothers and sisters don’t you cry
they’ll be good times by and by
Pharaoh’s army got drownded
O Mary don’t you weep
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Douglas has accepted. I am humbled, I am honored, and I accept. #epct
Here is our weekly look at just some of the good stuff going on in The Episcopal Church.
The Diocese of Connecticut is electing a bishop today, and Karin Hamilton, the diocese’s director of communications, is keeping up at steady twitter stream at
The mainstream media is South Carolina have spilled a great deal of ink on a special convention to be held today in the Diocese of South Carolina. I am not sure why. As nearly as I can tell, the five resolutions being considered will have almost no effect on the life of the diocese or the Church.