One doesn’t have to spend much time planning a liturgy in the Episcopal Church to realize the personal passions and tastes we hold for our music. And the language we use to describe the music we don’t personally like — dirge, sap, drivel, outdated, trash — doesn’t help. One person’s dirge, after all, is another person’s dignity; one person’s sap allows another’s spirit to soar with the Holy Spirit in delight.
Planned as the first pan-Orthodox council since 787, the absence of the Russian Orthodox church will cast a shadow over the gathering
As they spend time together Lou’s wacky wardrobe, clumsiness and heartfelt sincerity to do the best for her “charge” become endearing to Will and, as predictable, a very tender romance ensues. But it’s not enough to give him a reason to live as a disabled person; and that’s where the story takes a controversial turn. Let’s not spoil this for you. It’s worth seeing. You’ll have to decide for yourself who’s “living boldly” here since that’s the movie’s hashtag; #LivingBoldly.
Meeting in Atlanta this week, representatives from the College for Bishops, The Episcopal Church Development Office and The Episcopal Church Foundation as well as the Presiding Bishop, have come together to work on a new program called Project Resource which seeks to fundamentally alter how the church finds resources for mission.
In the wake of the tragic shooting in Orlando, the anti-LGBT sentiment of many faith leaders is being called into account. Piers Morgan confronted the Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend John Sentamu, on the British morning program Good Morning Britain.
Can we make the case that recreation is good for our soul? That a change of scene rejuvenates us? Strengthening family relationships while vacationing builds strong bonds? We can demonstrate and spread our faith elsewhere? We can establish Christian community in other places?
THE MAGAZINE Several years ago, I read a piece in a major daily publication about the reemergence of excommunication among mainline Protestant denominations. “Thank
Like a Chinese inside-painting bottle, we humans hold the Holy Spirit inside us as individual temples. We each have this beautiful image being painted inside of us by God and spirit. And in a way, the painting is being painted backwards because what one first sees in an encounter with any human being is only the tip of the beauty-iceberg, only the few first strokes of a detailed painting God is working out by applying layer after layer of paint, in thousands of colors, one hair-stroke at a time, backwards.
This weeks review is the frankly odd love story, “The Lobster”
Betsy, Greg, Liz, and Stephen talk about the film Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party and how this coming-of-age movie explores themes of sexual identity, generational difference, and the role of spirituality in the lives of teenagers.