Fifty years out, Martin Luther King called it. He said that “the judgment of God is on the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.” – [D]mergent
As Justin Welby prepares to become Archbishop of Canterbury, Malcolm French, convenor of No Anglican Covenant Coalition offers
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The Rev. Luis Leon, rector of St John’s Episcopal Church, Washington DC, who came to the US as a refugee from Guantanamo, Cuba, gives the
…hope—a new constellation
waiting for us to map it,
waiting for us to name it—together
As the National Cathedral, we are a visible faith community in a symbolic building. …. We represent what is best in American civic life—we stand at the intersection of faithful and civic values. It is vital that we use our visibility and our symbolic role to keep the need for gun control squarely in the public eye. …. We can make Washington National Cathedral a visible focus of our shared commitment and so help end our national tragic scourge of gun violence.
President Obama will worship today at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. Later today he will be sworn in a private televised ceremony. (Update: Monday he
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