To his hearers’ surprise, Jesus told a parable that said their simple practice of hospitality was no small thing. It revealed the sharp contrast between their humanity and the ruthless inhumanity of the ruling class.
The Church of England has been experiencing a rash of property crimes against some of its most expensive assets – its oldest buildings. Thieves have been nicking off with the lead from the roofs of parish churches, abbeys and cathedrals across the country.
There’s been a rise in parish-based nursing programs in recent years. And many church groups are even starting up regular health clinics for indigent and other under-served groups in their community. What effect will health care reform have on these efforts?
Rome has posted the text of its new English language liturgy online as a way of helping people to prepare for the transition.
The present controversy in the Episcopal Church has caused division in the Diocese of Colorado in ways that mirror the effects it’s had on the national stage. Now that a number of congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado have declared their “independence”, they are finding that the next steps are not as obvious as they thought.
The San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Bishop Marc Andrus and published his answers to their three questions this weekend.
Let the foghorn leghorns go on with their patronizing lectures until the woman has a meltdown on national television, while the cameras pan the senators, seeing but not comprehending those things they have left undone and those they ought not to have done — leaving it to the venerable Book of Common Prayer to observe that “there is no health in us.”
Like so many other Englishmen, Canon Giles Fraser has heard about enough of the American right’s misrepresentations of his country’s National Health Service:
Early on as a student at UNCG, [Ches Kennedy] made appointments with the ministers of three local churches: Catholic, Baptist, Episcopal. “I was a musician, I was friendly, I’d be a great member of the choir … and oh, by the way, I told them, ‘I’m gay,’ ” he recalled.
Brother Ron, as he likes to be called, is a monk. He’s a member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory, a Christian community that’s part of the Episcopal Church. Brother Ron helps to run the Chattanooga Community Kitchen, a day center that provides food, medical care and case management to the homeless.