Revisiting the trolley dilemma
June 28, 2009
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British Psychological Science Research Digest: Moral psychology gets more tricky when the interests of the many are pitted against the few, as in the classic
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Episcopal Church disputes don’t shake Presiding Bishop
June 28, 2009
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The smile on Katharine Jefferts Schori’s face was a mile wide. A group of Sudanese women had just finished singing, opening a service honoring the 150th anniversary of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in East Nashville. And now a string ensemble and nearly 300 worshippers had joined in a familiar hymn, as St. Ann’s choir, pastor and other clergy began entering in processional.
Mission: real and virtual
June 28, 2009
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Through a blog, Facebook, and Twitter Wyoming’s mission trip to Honduras is reported back home as it happens. The immediacy of being virtually present with those on the mission has connected the team, the people of El Ceiba, and Wyoming Episcopalians who support the work from afar.
Bayard Rustin and the convergence of civil rights and gay rights
June 28, 2009
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Bayard Rustin: Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.
Sparta granted women exceptional rights
June 28, 2009
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Upon subjugating its neighbors – whose population vastly outnumbered Sparta’s – Sparta needed its males to focus entirely on training for war and its females to focus on managing the subjugated population and estates. To give the women sufficient capability and incentive, especially in the absence of men, the men had to grant the extra rights to women.
EG4R lobbies to put MDG line item back in TEC budget
June 27, 2009
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Although the MDGs have been our church’s number one budget and programmatic priority since 2006, the draft budget coming to General Convention actually cut the MDGs line item. Our highest legislative priority is to reinstate the 0.7% line item for MDGs in the budget for the Episcopal Church. More than this, EGR proposes that this line item be increased to 1% as a cost-of-giving adjustment.
Companion dioceses relationships, a case study
June 27, 2009
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As Anglicans examine what exactly makes their Communion, um, communal, increasing attention has focused on companion dioceses and companion parish relationships. In this report, the Diocese of Washington’s Southern Africa Partnership Committee, looks back at the first five years of its relationships with the Church of the Province of Southern Africa.
Saturday collection 6/27/09
June 27, 2009
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Here is our weekly collection plate, offering some of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print.
Survey says Church of England “out of touch” on gay issues
June 27, 2009
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A revolution in attitudes towards gay men and lesbians is indicated in a poll which shows that a majority of the public want homosexuals to share identical rights to everyone else. Just 40 years after homosexual acts were legalised, and only nine years since the age of consent was equalised, 61 per cent of the public want gay couples to be able to marry just like the rest of the population, not just have civil partnerships.
Clerics getting “into the weeds” on health care reform
June 27, 2009
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What, I wondered, is a Christian minister doing on CNN pitching the president’s health-care plan?
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