Our movie of the week is ‘Minions,’ which provides a great opportunity for adults who have children in their lives to watch together and talk about it.
Really, our theology is a bit like IKEA furniture, and nowhere is the IKEA-ness expressed best in the American church through General Convention. If you’ve ever put together anything from IKEA, you know that the instructions are short on words, big on pictures, and the expectation is that with these instructions, any of us can “go thou and do likewise.”
“What I’ve come to understand after attending General Convention three times is that the Episcopal Church is about as diverse a body of faithful people as a denomination can be and still consider itself to be one church.”
Betsy, Greg, Kyle, and Mike explore comic book mythology and discuss how it informs our use of biblical narratives in our churches.
The film is a simple exploration of primarily white, upper middle class, mainstream “C” generation individual and family values. The only thing that is subtle in this film is God’s appearance in the form of intimacy, developing trust, forgiveness and reconciliation and redemption.
For 12 years, I worked at a church organ company where many of my associates were musicians whose work included providing wedding music. In June, I asked several of them to share the most memorable marriage ceremonies they had witnessed from the bench.
In the Magazine this month we’re looking at the experience of General Convention. In this post, first time deputy Katherine Karr-Cornejo reflects on her time as a deputy and the ways in which Twitter opened up the conversation of GC to the whole church.
At the Magazine this month, we’re exploring the experience of General Convention. In this piece, Kristin Fontaine recounts experiencing GC through social media and how that brought her closer to her mother
Amidst all of the big box office draws this summer comes a lovely little movie about the heart and soul of the human condition…love.
This past General Convention began moves towards a new revision of the Prayer Book, in this piece, Lisa Fischbeck asks that we consider how changing patterns of “belonging” to church might need to be reflected in how we worship