6 bishops visit the Archbishop of Canterbury
There we prayed together and discussed a range of issues concerning the Anglican Communion and The Episcopal Church.
There we prayed together and discussed a range of issues concerning the Anglican Communion and The Episcopal Church.
North Carolina and South Carolina are experiencing an economic boom but fears that the homeless will drive away business are resulting in some heartless policies:
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Carolyn C. Brown reflects on children in worship at
With the Supreme Court already committed to rule on a major new test of the constitutional roles of religion and government, the prospect of additional cases reaching the Court now suggests that the next Term will be a significant one for the First Amendment’s two religion clauses.
In 1913, Episcopal Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, Walter Harper, Harry Karstens, Robert Tatum and John Fredson (who kept the camp and dogs healthy) were the first
[at] a Christian conference in Australia four years ago, one of the speakers asked attendees to hold up their Bibles. “There were about 20,000 people there. I looked around the room, and thousands — thousands — were holding their phones and Kindles up in the air. I knew from that point that the context was going to change forever.”
It is deeply unhelpful of the Archbishop to use language which appears to suggest that the risk that those who wish to affirm gay people present is one of a lack or loss of core beliefs. That just isn’t true and is a nasty slur against fellow Anglicans.
When we think we are strong we fool ourselves, perhaps even our society – but never God. When we accept our weakness, embrace it, and turn afresh to God in prayer, share reconciliation and go out with the good news we have, then He does the work. It is dreadfully hard, always shaped like a cross, and feels like one too, but it is the way of Christ and it leads to glory.