The Archive
Category: The Lead
I love to tell The Story…
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori discusses the new communication strategies and how they relate to one of our primary ministries: evangelism.
Presiding Bishop in Liberia
The presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church of the United States, Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, blessed hundreds of children at Trinity Cathedral, where over a thousand Episcopalians gathered to welcome her on her first visit to Liberia
Hate begets hate
The government’s venom is chilling: “Homosexuals can forget about human rights,” James Nsaba Buturo, who holds the cynically titled position of minister of ethics and integrity, said recently. What makes this even worse is that three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” gays and lesbians have been widely discredited in the United States, helped feed this hatred.
Mary Daly, foremother of modern feminist theology dies at 81
[Mary Daly’s] contributions to feminist theology, philosophy, and theory were many, unique, and if I may say so, world-changing. She created intellectual space; she set the bar high. Even those who disagreed with her are in her debt for the challenges she offered.
Anglican Constitution is what it seems to be
There have been some questions raised in the blogsphere in the past month about whether or not there is some sort of hidden structure to the Anglican Communion hinted at in some of its documents. The short answer? “No.”
Westboro Baptist folks picket
in New Hampshire
The folks from Wesboro Baptist traveled to New Hampshire over the weekend to protest against the state’s new same-sex marriage law. They protested at a high school, the city hall in Concord and the offices of the Episcopal Diocese.
Canadian House of Bishops expresses “deep sense of alarm”
The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada as well as the Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have sent a statement conveying a ‘deep sense of alarm’ over Uganda’s proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
‘It’s a fight for their lives’ — NY Times on Uganda
Months of hustle and footwork by bloggers and various news sources have turned the attention of certain mainstream media to the subject of what’s going on in Uganda.
Current spate of films has a spiritual bent
From the evangelical and overt “The Blind Side,” to the corporate-greed message of “A Christmas Carol,” the cinema of the moment just might have something to teach us.