The unaddressed question is why white mainline Protestants do not support torture. Indeed, approximately twice as many mainline Protestants (31%) believe that torture is never justified and an additional 22% think it is almost always wrong. Their attitude toward torture is nearly opposite of evangelical Protestant opinion.
Canon Michael Marrett, a hospital chaplain and pillar of strength for years at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Northwest, suffered a reversal of fortune last summer when he had a stroke and became a patient at the very hospital in which he worked.
Search profiles the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori and recounts the story of her movement from a career in science to her vocation in the
The Browser interviews Anthony Gottlieb, former Executive Editor of The Economist, and historian of ideas at the CUNY Graduate Center about God, reason, and the
“Holy cow, the sky hasn’t fallen.” That assessment of five years of same-sex marriage came from Jennifer Chrisler, who advocates for gay and lesbian parents as head of the Boston-based Family Equality Council. It’s a common refrain from many like-minded activists.
The Vatican is poised to beatify John Newman the Anglican convert to Catholicism. But the New Statesman says there’s some sand in the gears:
The Rev. Jay Wegman, an associate priest at St. Luke in the Fields, an Episcopal church in Greenwich Village and director of the Abrons Arts Center, once thought that he might have to choose between a life in the theater and a call to the priesthood. Now both vocations are intertwined.
ENS reports: The Very Rev. John Tarrant was elected on May 9 to serve as bishop coadjutor (bishop with right of succession) of the Diocese
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) on May 9 unanimously re-affirmed its desire for a “robust peace process” in the Israel-Palestine conflict and a two-state solution. The members passed a resolution that calls Israel’s West Bank policies “a physical form of apartheid.”
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