The Archive

Category: The Lead

Support the Instruments: shop Anglican

June 2, 2010 2 Comments

This just out from ACNS: The Anglican Communion Office (ACO) has today launched its online shop where visitors can buy books, CDs and other products

ACC’s General Synod considers sexuality — again

June 2, 2010 7 Comments

We are well practiced in our disagreements. Our suspicions of each other are high as we once again take our sides and prepare for the next debate. Within this context no motion can come to the floor of General Synod without the suspicion of bias or manipulation. We don’t agree—and what is at stake is sustaining a community within the context of a complex and conflicted argument about its moral life.

Assorted links

June 2, 2010 No Comments

Andrus on ABC; Murdoch and Beliefnet; Questions prospective seminarians are asked; MDGs

‘All together now’: Sunday mornings and the collective mindset

June 1, 2010 14 Comments

Here’s a possible vision for the future of Sunday School, when dwindling supplies of money and people may force churches to push their resources together.

Serving a local Hmong crowd, translators serve the world

June 1, 2010 1 Comment

“A seemingly simple phrase like, ‘The peace of the Lord be with you,’ turns into a major debate. We end up having to go back to the original texts, some of which are in Hebrew, to try to decipher exactly what the person writing that meant.”

Why don’t we reach out to Roman Catholics?

June 1, 2010 12 Comments

This incident is the latest is a string of statements and revelations that indicate just how lightly many Catholic hierarchs value the lives of the people who sit in their pews and drop their money into the collection basket. The willingness to inflict pain–and in this instance quite possibly death–on the faithful in the name of doctrine is a form of sadism.

The ABC should practice a little “gracious restraint” of his own

June 1, 2010 2 Comments

Why not end all the waffling? Take some bold steps. Request additional letters of resignation from the members of the Compass Rose Society and the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, to be effective at least until the next Lambeth Conference.

The fallen Bonobo

May 31, 2010 13 Comments

Presented with evidence that homosexuality occurs naturally among bonobos, an evangelical pastor responds that bonobos were also affected by the Fall.

Honoring the dead: a son’s proposal for peace

May 31, 2010 No Comments

The Rev. Donald Heckman, director for external relations of Religions for Peace International wrote this Memorial Day essay for the Huffington Post:

Bringing peace to Newark’s streets

May 31, 2010 1 Comment

Bishop Mark Beckwith of Newark collaborated with a rabbi and an imam on a column in today’s Newark Star-Ledger. They represent the executive team of the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace, which for three years has worked to reduce violence and bring peace to the streets of Newark