You know how some cowardly muggers target little old ladies because they’re usually slow, frail and unlikely to fight back? Well, the exact same dynamic, though in intellectual rather than bag-grabbing terms, can be seen in the radical-atheist assaults on Mother Teresa.
Not sure what’s causing the glitch, but our Café notes stopped posting on Wednesday to both Twitter and Facebook. The problem appears to be with the backend we use to pipe things to Twitterfeed and Facebook, so we’ll be beating that with a virtual hammer until it cooperates again. The end result is that it’s been relatively quiet this week–but not totally so.
As a priest and an outspoken member of Executive Council, Winnie Varghese wonders if the “listening process” has begun to bear fruit on the other side of the globe.
From Bishop Thomas E. Breidenthal’s address to the diocesan convention: Finally, after much prayer and consultation, I have decided that the time has come for
Bob Duncan sure gets a lot of attention for a guy who has spent millions of dollars and lost his shirt in a significant court case en route to prying a whopping three percent of Episcopalians into this new anti-gay church.
Mourners gathered in prayer last night at Fort Hood to pray, grieve and remember. Chaplains have been on duty around the clock since a gunman opened fire into a crowd of soldiers and civilian Army personnel around 1:30 p.m. CST Thursday.
The past few days 77 participants from 13 African countries met for the first time ever to dialogue about the issue of sexual orientation from a Christian faith perspective. The participants included clergy (pastors, Bishops, National Church Council leadership and Academics) and an equal number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and intersexed (LGBTI) people, of whom a few were also clergy.
Here is our weekly look at just some of the good stuff going on in The Episcopal Church.
From the Episcopal Public Policy Network: Health care costs have been sky rocketing. Many people don’t have access to insurance affordable or not. The Episcopal
The swine flu scare has religions rethinking religious practices. Entrepreneurs see a market: