Author: Jon White

Science is the “How,” Religion is the “Why”

New research project finds most people, religious or not, accept evolutionary theory. The religion/science conflict paradigm though is a view hold mostly by atheists with most religious people seeing no conflict between science and their beliefs.

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Call a priest “priest”

Jesus said; “call no man father on earth, for you have one Father, the one in heaven” (Matthew 23:9). Yet, in the Episcopal Church, which has ordained women as priests for more than 40 years – 40 years! – male priests are still often called “Father.” As a result, the church has not developed forms of address that work for both male and female priests.

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From the Daily Sip: Crazing

When glass or glaze on clay cools, it sometimes crazes – a term for the tiny fractures in the glass which occur as the clay and the glass cool and shrink at different rates. Is it possible that this phenomenon happens in life too? When we have too much pressure applied to our lives, are there fractures?

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Defending religious tolerance

Six Episcopal bishops have joined an interfaith coalition to file an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case challenging the President’s travel ban aimed primarily at Muslims

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