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Book Review: Outlandish

April 6, 2019 No Comments

We review Derek Penwell’s provocative book on Jesus; Outlandish: An Unlikely Messiah, A Messy Ministry, and the Call to Mobilize

A new Episcopal church named after one of the newest Episcopal saints

April 2, 2019 3 Comments

A new congregation, formed out of the merger of two churches in the Diocese of California, has been named after one of the newest saints on the Episcopal calendar. St Anna’s Episcopal Church is the first to be named after an African American woman, having chosen Anna E.B. Alexander, the first and only African American Deaconess to serve in the Episcopal Church.

At the centre

March 20, 2019 No Comments

When the night sky, or an unfamiliar crowd, stretch out so as to make me shrink with smallness by their magnitude I find God still, distilled into a still, small voice in the centre of my senses.

Prayers and a cup of tea as Britain approaches Brexit deadline

March 19, 2019 2 Comments

Brexit-Preparation materials published by the Church in Wales include the advice, “Make it clear you are aware of and will not tolerate hate crime.”

A welcome gift from the church thrift store

March 19, 2019 7 Comments

When the Little Thrift Store of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Dunedin, Florida received an ornate pearl collar necklace, it reminded the volunteer staff of the Episcopal Church Women ministry of someone.

Book Review: Revealed

March 9, 2019 No Comments

We review Revealed: What the Bible Can Teach You About Yourself, from the author Angela D. Schaffner

“Hugely significant” Farsi translation of Communion liturgy celebrated in the Church of England

March 5, 2019 1 Comment

“You can speak with God in your own language, that language you completely understand because you grew up with it.” – Mohsen Chinaveh

Extract from an ordination sermon

February 27, 2019 No Comments

It is in serving the most vulnerable, the most easily overlooked, ignored, or exploited people that we learn the most about the love of Christ; because it is by the need to listen deeply, by setting aside our own agendas and letting ourselves be led by the pain of others that we find our way to the foot of the cross.

Early reactions to UMC GC2019

February 27, 2019 6 Comments

“Whatever comes next for The United Methodist Church, I am steadfast in my belief that the General Conference cannot release us from our responsibility to love and care for a world groaning for justice.
We must also put our faith into action, and continue to work for LGBTQIA equality in civil and human rights.”

Episcopal churches host concerts reinterpreting ancient stories in the #metoo era

February 19, 2019 No Comments

Cleveland Scene describes Burning River Baroque’s The Other Side of the Story: Untold Perspectives on Familiar Tales as “a program that takes on the issues of ‘toxic masculinity’.”

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Author: Rosalind Hughes