Imagine _______ had been unfaithful to their spouse. Do you think it would be legitimate for the media to report this, or do you think they should be entitled to keep the matter private?
I have my doubts, too: doubts that naturally arise when, say, her magazine hawks both the philosophy of voluntary simplicity and $185 beach blankets without a smidgen of irony.
” … churches tend to lose vigor when they relax demands on adherents.”
As a tribute to the power of positive thinking, this iconic landmark of American religion continues to put its own ideologies to the test.
“This is a culture so obsessed with transparency that it can confuse that, I think, with this universal miasma of gossip and prurience.”
I think many who finally step in our doors step in because of their brokenness, looking for some community to recognize that, not avoid it, provide some ways to help with it, and teach them how to pray in the midst of it. Instead, sadly, they often find people who claim to know something a bit more and above them, and a church that sometimes majors in niceness, rather than reality.
Episcopalians in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles held silent prayer vigils in protest of Israeli treatment of Palestinians on May 24, the day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress about the peace process.
On balance, we believe that The Episcopal Church should continue to be free to respond to its own discernment, through its own established polity, of God’s will. There are those among us that feel the adoption of the proposed Anglican Covenant by General Convention would seriously hinder this freedom.
Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been selected to design a new “Chapel for the Ages” at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.
“The Anglican Church was part of the foundation of this city and has been a living part of its growth and heritage for all these years and we have no intention of doing anything other than continuing to contribute to the life and spirit of our city.”