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September 23, 2010 1 Comment

1. Holy roller burns Bible. 2. In 2004, the top twenty-five hedge fund managers combined appear to have earned more than all of the CEOs

Bennison: Don’t worry, I’m innocent

September 23, 2010 9 Comments

Bishop Bennison says in spite of a resolution from the House of Bishops calling for his resignation, he won’t resign:

Armstrong’s parish website
removes statement

September 23, 2010 5 Comments

It’s an incremental development, but the statement defending CANA/ACNA priest Don Armstrong issued on his parish’s website has been taken down without announcement. This followed

The laying on of hands

September 23, 2010 4 Comments

A friendly touch buffers the physiological consequences of stress.

Recognizing the divine in the other

September 22, 2010 2 Comments

“We don’t want to mess with others who are different. That’s hard work. It takes a lot to hear somebody else’s story. We don’t want to do the hard work. We don’t want our lives to change. “But imagine if we became known as the people who are able to greet the other and say, ‘Namaste, the God in me greets the God in you.'”

Truth and clarity about Armstrong’s plea agreement

September 22, 2010 6 Comments

In light of the substantial misinformation from Donald Armstrong about the plea bargain which he agreed to in open court last week, let me share with you our understanding of the plea agreement, a copy of which is attached in full so that you may read it for yourselves. – Lawrence R. Hitt II, Chancellor of Colorado

Gaps between rich and poor

September 22, 2010 No Comments

The gap that could squander our democracy isn’t the gap between liberal and conservative, or labor and management, or progressive and fundamentalist, or Christianity and Islam. It is the gap that troubled Jesus: the gap between a rich man who lived fabulously and a poor man.

Early AA document displays debate over religion

September 22, 2010 No Comments

The group’s decision to use “higher power” and “God of your understanding” instead of “God” or “Jesus Christ” and to adopt a more inclusive tone was enormously important in making the deeply spiritual text accessible to the non-religious and non-Christian, AA historians and treatment experts say.

Living as the the holy people of God

September 22, 2010 2 Comments

Each individual’s, family’s, congregation’s and diocese’s giving takes on immeasurable significance in these tough times, calling us anew to unimagined opportunities to live as the holy people of God. ~ Bonnie Anderson

House of Bishops to Bennison – resign

September 21, 2010 15 Comments

House of Bishops to Charles Bennison: “We exhort Charles, our brother in Christ, in the strongest possible terms, to tender his immediate and unconditional resignation as the Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.”