When Disney unceremoniously pulled out of co-financing the Chronicles Of Narnia franchise just before the New Year, shock waves of doubt and remorse echoed through the Vulture comment section. However, thanks to the good graces of the people over at Fox, fans of the dream world of magic can spark up a celebratory jay and hit the Magnolia Bakery tonight, because the franchise is back on!
“Fifty years ago, everybody used to go to church,” Mr. de Leeuw, the rector, said, smiling at about 50 people gathered in his 22 remaining pews last Sunday. “The sense of obligation people had is gone, but maybe that’s a good thing. Those of us who gather here are here because we want to be.”
Time to revisit John Taylor’s classic work Enough is Enough, and to look at recession from a wider perspective. In this book Taylor develops the theology of enough. The dream of the Biblical Hebrew people, he points out, is summed up in the word shalom, “something much broader than peace, the harmony of a caring community, informed at every point by its awareness of God”.
As requested of all provinces, the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has submitted its response to the St. Andrew’s Draft of the Anglican Covenant.
The suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Dallas spoke with the Corsicana Daily Sun about a legislator’s bill that would override the Dennis Canon. The bishop did not come out against the bill.
Episcopal permission be given to a limited number of parishes, based on Episcopal discernment, to offer prayers and blessing (but not the nuptial blessing) to same-sex couples in stable, long-term, committed relationships, as an extension of the current pastoral norms.
Father Matthew Moretz, the Episcopal You Tube Star, has a few thoughts on evangelism.
“What if the Episcopal Church is poised and positioned for its greatest season of ministry ever? What if difficulties of recent years were actually like pruning on a vine, making way for great fruit and new wine to come? What if historic values and virtues have become like a treasure hidden in the Episcopal Church, waiting to be rediscovered and shared?”
In previous years the NFL has frowned on congregations getting together to watch the Super Bowl together on a large screen – and especially so
Here at the Café we’ve been notified that earlier today Bishop Jack Iker, who left the Episcopal Church with a group from the Diocese of