At 9 a.m., a joint military honor guard was assembled outside All Saints Episcopal Church. Stevens’ widow, Catherine, his six children and some of his 11 grandchildren were paying their respects. By 10 a.m., mourners had formed a line waiting to enter the church.
Matis, president of the standing committee, declined Tuesday to speculate on future relations between Bennison and the committee. When it became apparent in their meeting that Bennison intended to stay, Matis said, committee members did not broach the question of resignation, but instead “updated him on issues relating to the diocese.”
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Obama quotes Scripture as “wisdom literature” to be applied to contemporary issues in a pluralistic way. The lessons Obama draws publicly from the Bible also conform to his rational and pragmatic sides.
And now congregation, put your hands together and give thanks, for I come bearing Good News. My country, Britain, is now the most irreligious country on earth. This island has shed superstition faster and more completely than anywhere else. Some 63 percent of us are non-believers, according to a 2006 Guardian/ICM poll, while 82 percent say religion is a cause of harmful division.
The class of 2014 has never found Korean-made cars unusual on the Interstate and five hundred cable channels, of which they will watch a handful, have always been the norm. Since “digital” has always been in the cultural DNA, they’ve never written in cursive and with cell phones to tell them the time, there is no need for a wrist watch.
An Amherst rector and three other Episcopal priests from out of state have been nominated to become the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, diocesan officials announced Monday.
My protest will be like all other protests I have ever mounted: viz. in the spirit of passive resistance. Who was ever harmed by a banana? Unless you were to push an under-ripe one into someone’s eye, it is an innocuous fruit on the face of it.
Like the Reformed gathering, Adventists said they found many of the rejected visas came from poverty-stricken areas of the world.