Obama signs Hate Crimes Law
October 29, 2009
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President Obama keeps promise to sign an expanded Hate Crimes Law.
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Sick, stay home
October 29, 2009
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Roman Catholic churches in Boston are urging their parishioners to stay home from mass if they are sick and they are exempt from the requirement
Baptist theologian defends the common cup
October 29, 2009
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Russell Moore, Dean of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: I’m not offended by people disagreeing me on this. I’m just stunned by the reason they
Ray Suarez talks $ on Wall Street
October 29, 2009
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Jesus was not afraid to talk about our relationship to money, Episcopalians notoriously are. “We do it reluctantly, apologetically, politely,” Suarez said.
PRA: Rick Warren exports bigotry to Africa
October 29, 2009
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Kapya Kaoma, an Anglican priest from Zambia who just completed a report for Political Research Associates on the influence of U.S. evangelicals on African gay politics calls on Rick Warren to denounce the antigay legislation proposed in Uganda and challenge his friends like Archbishop Henry Orombi and Pastor Martin Sempa who are leading the charge.
A woman of Fort Worth, but not a woman in Fort Worth
October 28, 2009
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Barbi Click explains that she had to leave Jack Iker’s diocese to follow her vocation: “Joy and sadness blend to a point that it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. I know I feel joy that the Diocese of Fort Worth is about to ordain its first woman priest. Sadly, I will not be able to be a part of the celebration.”
A rap for All Saints Day
October 28, 2009
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In anticipation of All Saints Day, we present The All Saints Rap, written by the youth group at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, in Mill Valley, California, where Café contributor the Rev. Richard Helmer is rector. The vocal is by Willie Van Doren, Our Saviour’s youth minister. Music by Dow Brain.
When, and how, should congregations close or merge?
October 28, 2009
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Episcopal candidates on walkabout in Minnesota reflect on using pastoral sensibility at the end of the congregational life cycle.
Colbert on pope’s offer: “I’m sure there’s no strings attached”
October 28, 2009
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Balmer: “Holy water is fine but let’s not drink the Kool-aid.” Colbert: “I think you are mixing your cults there but all right.”
Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill
October 28, 2009
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The bill is a particular challenge for Christians because clergy have helped to whip up fear and hatred and undermine respect for human rights. Anglican leaders such as the Archbishop of Canterbury have avoided challenging their Ugandan associates’ complicity in anti-LGBT abuses while soundly condemning Anglican provinces moving towards equality for all.
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