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Who would Jesus smack down?

January 11, 2009 2 Comments

Conservatives call Driscoll “the cussing pastor” and wish that he’d trade in his fashionably distressed jeans and taste for indie rock for a suit and tie and placid choral arrangements. Liberals wince at his hellfire theology and insistence that women submit to their husbands. But what is new about Driscoll is that he has resurrected a particular strain of fire and brimstone, one that most Americans assume died out with the Puritans: Calvinism, a theology that makes Pat Robertson seem warm and fuzzy.

Meetings are worship

January 10, 2009 1 Comment

Charles Olsen notes that we often bookend church meetings with perfunctory invocations and benedictions. He suggests that if we redefine activity of the people of

A gay ordination in Colorado

January 10, 2009 1 Comment

Ending several years of restraint by the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado in ordaining openly gay and partnered priests, Bishop Robert O’Neill will ordain Mary Catherine Volland, along with three others, to the priesthood at St. John’s Cathedral on Saturday.

A report from Zimbabwe

January 10, 2009 No Comments

Women have figured more prominently in the resistance over the past 10 years and have become increasingly visible. Often they face the police with the bearing and confidence of mothers, grandmothers and older women who deserve traditional respect.”

Bishops oppose reinstituting death penalty in Maryland

January 10, 2009 No Comments

As the Maryland General Assembly prepares to convene on Wednesday, we hope that legislators will decide against the death penalty in Maryland. Doing so would represent an enormous moral failure for the state and for civil society.

A report from the Diocese of Jerusalem on Al Ahli Arab Hospital

January 10, 2009 No Comments

Al Ahli Arab Hospital continues to receive and care for many patients each day who are injured, wounded, or burned from the current conflict. Up to 40 new patients are seen each day and many of them require hospital admission and surgery. This increased surgical load places strains on related hospital departments – anesthetics, suture material, operating room linens and equipment, bandages, and surgeons themselves.

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Who would Jesus smack down?

Meetings are worship

A gay ordination in Colorado

A report from Zimbabwe

Bishops oppose reinstituting death penalty in Maryland

A report from the Diocese of Jerusalem on Al Ahli Arab Hospital

Finding a bishop on the Web

Christans and Living Wills

Presiding Bishop calls special convention in Fort Worth

Rick Warren offers a home to conservative Anglicans

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