Who is Responsible?
July 11, 2014
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by Linda Ryan Like a lot of other people, I’ve been reading and watching various reports and commentaries on the recent Hobby Lobby case. The
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Wanting to be heard
July 7, 2014
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by Marshall Scott Not long ago I was responding to a news item on The Lead, and made this observation: So, I find myself with
Fourth of July and the liturgical calendar
July 3, 2014
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First, the inclusion, omission, and re-inclusion of Independence Day in the liturgical calendar should warn against equating nationalism and Christianity. For its first century and a half, Episcopalians viewed loyalty to Christ and not the nation as paramount.
Holy Communion
June 29, 2014
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The Eucharist makes us available to the ever-changing and changeable God, the Creator who loves each of us beyond our capacity to understand. Immanuel, God-with-us, who is always alive in our hearts makes himself felt through this liturgy and yanks at us from the inside. It also makes us available at our cores to one another. It crosses all our differences to make us one people, one family, one Body.
The Martyrs of Uganda witness against sexual violence
June 21, 2014
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Those who use the witness of the Martyrs of Uganda to condemn homosexual persons, or to denigrate same sex marriage or as an excuse to persecute GLBT persons miss the power of the original witness of the Martyrs of Uganda. They reduce their deaths to a story of paranoia and social control. In short, they accomplish precisely was the Ugandan king failed to do in 1886.
Going to church to wake up
June 18, 2014
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by Pamela Grenfell Smith Four thousand miles from home, in a city where I didn’t speak the language, I’d staggered off the plane more than
The symmetry of life
June 15, 2014
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by Mary Cobb Erickson I am moved often by the symmetry of life. Although it doesn’t always seem like it, there is a rhythm and
Trigger warning
June 12, 2014
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by Torey Lightcap The window is propped open, the birds are singing, a mild breeze is blowing, and the church lawn is verdant. It’s a
Clergy as professional revolutionaries
June 9, 2014
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by George Clifford Recently, I read Edward Dreyer’s history of wars in China during the first half of the twentieth century, China at War: 1901-1949
Should We Sell the Church Center Part 2
June 5, 2014
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by Del Glover Part 2 of 2 Part 1 is
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