To bring the story of a powerful but flawed woman who loves and follows Jesus, students must confront many deep questions including “Do you want to go have a beer with this guy?”
Updated: here is the ad. The Episcopal Church announces an ad campaign on the welcoming nature of the Episcopal Church. It will begin on November
The Serbian Orthodox Church uses a system that incorporates a lottery within the election by church elders to choose a leader.
The Yankees’ Stadium organist found an “off season” gig (via Craigslist!) for an New Jersey Episcopal Church in Morristown.
“Business had not been good of late, and “you know, Monday I have to pay this, and Tuesday I have to pay that.” Then, just that morning, “Jesus gave me $1,000.” ”
“I believe that clergy talking about environmental stewardship from the pulpit will have more influence than will scientists or a politician.”
But never get around to it? There’s an app for that.
The Anglican Church of Canada is, to our knowledge, the first province of the Anglican Communion to express its opposition to draconian anti-gay law under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament. The provincial secretary of the Church of Uganda has expressed support for the legislation, while suggesting that executing people for having sex was perhaps going a bit far.
Sexual minorities in Africa have become collateral damage to our domestic conflicts and culture wars as U.S. conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay pastors and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans in their American fight, a groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA) discovered.
If you are in a room with 99 other randomly selected people, you are the Episcopalian. To double the size of the church, you need to lead one other person out of that room with you. Is the best strategy to offer a generalized message aimed at appealing, if mildly, to as many people as possible? Or is it better to differentiate yourself as clearly as possible from other churches?