Prejudice based on looks rather than performance violates principles of equal opportunity and social justice that this nation has fought hard to establish. Beauty bias is the last frontier of acceptable bigotry. Except in a few localities, it is now perfectly legal. That needs to change. In schools and workplaces, people should be judged on how they perform, not how they look.
As religious leaders for this new millennium, our task is to provide authentic spiritual anchors that will make the members of our many and varied faith communities feel safe and secure, while simultaneously offering them exciting, eclectic, and innovative approaches to living religious lives that will speak to them in a language that they will find accessible, enriching, and, in the end, transformational. We owe them no less.
“With the closing of this short-term loan the imminent financial crisis that GTS faced has been temporarily eased, thanks to the good work of Board member Sandra Johnson, Executive Vice President Maureen Burnley, and Associate Vice President Frank DiMaiuta, we have bought some breathing room,” wrote President Lowrey to trustees.
We regret to inform you that Charles Crump, longtime Chancellor of The Diocese of West Tennessee and 17-time deputy to the General Convention of The Episcopal Church, died last night at the age of 96.
After the eighth ballot, a motion was made to suspend the Rules of Order for the Nominating Synod and to nominate three candidates instead of four. The motion passed by the required two-thirds majority of the Clergy and Lay delegates voting.
What’s on the business card, while entirely irrelevant to some, can certainly have the capacity to tinge ministerial life in critical ways. Though ethereal sounding, the loss of “temporalities” is real enough; and the headaches that can arise in an environment of rent-to-own authority can be more than one feels is worth bargaining for.
If you care to look for them, you’ll find correlations between positive brain activity and spiritual exercise.
The friend who says, “You can believe pretty much anything you want, so long as you enjoy going to services together with us” is largely correct.
All Saints Church in Pasadena welcomes back to their adult education hour attorney David Codell – widely credited as the architect of the legal strategy that led to the 2008 California Supreme Court on marriage equality decision.
“Imam Muda” is a terrifically popular Malaysian religious reality-competition television show. How long will it be until its counterpart arrives on our shore? Or do we keep on going with our reruns of “The Vicar of Dibley”?