What happened this weekend in Charlottesville was the world stepping into our sacred space – the torches, the guns, the speeding car, the fistfights, the injured, the voices of hate and fear. So what can we do?
On Friday night, ahead of tonight’s planned rally, members of the alt-right and white supremacist groups marched through the streets of Charlottesville, VA carrying torches and chanting slogans steeped in the history of bigotry.
What I’ve found is a lot of kids who grew up in charismatic and evangelical churches were finding more relevance to their faith with things that were rooted and grounded in tradition, from Anglican to anything that had a liturgical, historical grounding to it.
When Pastor Robert Jeffress pronounced his blessing on a possible US first strike against North Korea, he was standing in an ancient biblical tradition. A very dangerous one.
Is it only after we are forced to reach out and touch our own mortality that we are finally able to stand up for our principles? Is it only then that we can become a “profile in courage” and rise above all the politics, lobbying, and bullying?
…the NCC condemns the use of military bluster while millions of lives hang in the balance.
Excavation of what is believed to be a Roman bathouse may be convincing evidence of the site of Biblical Bethsaida
“The creation of this Committee on Racial Reconciliation is a statement that tells the church and our members we are very serious concerning the challenges that racism presents us in bringing men and youth closer to Christ,” [Brotherhood of St. Andrew] President Butcher said.
Episcopal churches are welcoming visitors in preparation for August 21’s solar eclipse – an unexpected outreach opportunity!
The Fort Worth Court of Appeals will decide our case based on the law and facts. Recently, however, there has been some misleading information put out about how the South Carolina ruling might affect our case here in Fort Worth. So I asked our legal team to address the misstated legal implications in a statement we could share with those interested. – Bishop Scott Mayer, provisional bishop of Fort Worth