Dalai Lama to meet Obama today
President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House today.
President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House today.
Via the Daily Scan from The Episcopal Church, the following is a sampling of the many articles about Lent and Ash Wednesday in our churches.
1. Will Walmart save the small farm and make America healthy?
Rob Tish has put together another must see video, this time explaining how many ways you can be dead under the anti-gay bill before the
Bishop Duracin and I talked about foregoing Lent this year, for Haiti has already experienced Good Friday. Their task is to practice resurrection, find hope, and dream together of a restored world. That is our own task as well. The nations of the world, under Haiti’s direction, can help to rebuild a stronger and freer nation, where all people have hope of a more abundant life. – The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.
Paying the right kind of attention to the corruptions of language in our age is inseparable from attending to the corruptions of our economic exchanges; and it is no less of a religious obligation. – Rowan Williams
The private Episcopal school in Richmond is changing the names of its elementary literary societies from the Lees and Jacksons to the Chamberlayne Reds and Chamberlayne Grays in honor of school founder Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne. The school’s colors are red and gray.
The phrase “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” from The Book of Common Prayer refers to our bodies after death. But it doesn’t specify how
Our conference showed that religion does not need to be an enemy to the cause of LGBT concerns. LGBT people have a strong sense of religion and God and values. What is at stake here in Uganda is religious freedom, human rights and minority protections. We pray that the international community will continue to stand with us. ~~Rev. Mark Kiyimba
Brian Prior, formerly vice president of the House of Deputies, was ordained and consecrated as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota this past weekend.