Separation of church and sports?
Florida Columnist Sam Cook asks: “We separate church and state. Why not church and sports?”
Florida Columnist Sam Cook asks: “We separate church and state. Why not church and sports?”
In a statement to the synod, Mr Shirriff said that despite reducing bank debt from $140m to $83m last year, the diocese had stayed geared too long in growth assets, which fell in value as the global economy worsened.
From the Independent (UK): The Big Question: Why is the Catholic church offering a home to congregations of Anglicans?
In the wake of the spread of an evangelical “prosperity gospel,” many African children have been denounced as witches and tortured.
Pittsburgh’s Provisional Bishop Kenneth L. Price offered counsel for a diocese struggling to rebound.
The strong possibility of individuals, or even whole congregations, defecting seems to have been clarified in light of decisions announced this week.
The weekly roundup of social media responses to our posts. Twitter has been quiet this week, although we’ve seen plenty of retweets from our followers, and Facebook has seen some lively conversation about the merits or lack thereof of Rick Warren’s books, among other things.
Thanks to a long turnaround by the Vatican on his work, the 17th-century astronomer now has an exhibit in his honor.
“Not everything in the world around us, whether it might be in the family or in the church, helps us to feel that,” “We must keep doing it for each other.”
The Episcopal Church has released the numbers for membership for 2008