Should I participate in boycotting countries that allow child labor? Economists Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti say think before jumping to the obvious answer:
Alberto Cutié who has recently joined the Episcopal Church after a career as a Roman Catholic priest writes his response to the actions of the
The timing of the Rome’s announcement of an Apostolic Constitution was driven by the General Synod’s determination to allow women bishops in the Church of
After the news that the Vatican is effectively carving out a special church-within-a-church to shelter traditionalist Anglicans upset at gay priests and women bishops in their own church, one has to wonder if the cafeteria line isn’t forming to the right.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has often berated the American Church for its meanness towards those who have left over issues such as the consecration of gay men and the ordination of women. He cannot let the C of E be any less charitable towards those it is forcing to leave. Had the Church of England Synod made generous arrangements, permitting separate dioceses for traditionalists, few of us would have left the Church of our baptism.
From the Very Rev. Sam Candler, dean of St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta writing at Good Faith and the Common Good
A bill has been introduced to the Uganda parliament that would, among other things, provide a three year prison term for anyone who fails to report the names of those they know to be LGBT (and those they know who are heterosexual who support human rights for LGBT people) to authorities.
An Episcopal Cafe´shout out to Brian Grieves: The Rev. Canon Brian Grieves’ 21 years of ministry at the Episcopal Church Center in New York have
As courts have handed down longer sentences and tightened parole, about 75 prisons have started hospice programs, half of them using inmate volunteers, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Discrimination, segregation, stereotyping – all factor in to women’s lives. In this context, can we really believe that the focus on women’s femaleness (in contrast to their humanity) and its supposed deficiency within debates about ordaining women, is not joining in the current conversation about women in wider society?