I think there’s a very high risk of commoditizing poverty and poor people so that we, the donors, feel good. That’s the main reason that we don’t offer direct sponsorship of microfinance beneficiaries.
In the Diocese of South Carolina one of the larger Episcopal churches in the country appears to have grown impatient with the path chosen by diocesan leadership. St. Andrew’s church of Mt. Pleasant has begun 40 Days of Discernment™, the same study materials that other churches have used that have left the Episcopal Church in recent years.
The Dallas Morning News reports, “Dallas Episcopal leaders are cautioning clergy not to talk … about discipline scandals — whether Warnky and fellow broker/priest Raymond Jennison’s financial dealings with parishioners or another priest’s three-year suspension for harassment.”
[To honor] Labor Day, consider the results of a new report that reveals the pervasiveness of wage theft in the United States: from less-than-minimum wage pay to unpaid overtime to the refusal of meal breaks, many workers are being matter-of-factly robbed.
The York Daily Record interviewed the Presiding Bishop who will be visiting the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania this weekend. From a portion of the Q
What is green all about for us as Christians? What’s the relationship between growth and going green? How did that big meeting in July call us to grow as a body? How is God present in our ordinary times?
The rapid growth of “emerging churches” worldwide provided a new opportunity for reflection on the nature and task of the church. This article briefly outlines some of the tensions this movement raises in relation to the traditional “marks” of the church
Thinking Anglicans reports that the seven Communion Partner bishops who met with the Archbishop of Canterbury last week have issued a statement. Thinking Anglicans notes:
Father Carl Kabat, one of the Catholic clergy known as the “Plowshares Eight,” continues to crusade against nuclear weapons long after the demise of the Soviet Union and as other activists have turned their attention elsewhere.