The Honest to God Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will be reorganizing itself at a special convention this weekend. Read the diocesan news release and Mark Harris’ thoughts.
From the beginning of his administration, President Bush has pushed for more aid to Africa. Motivated perhaps by his deeply felt Christian faith (relieving poverty in Africa has become a major charitable push among evangelicals), the president has pressed for greater aid to Africa across the board.
“Right after the vote, everyone who disagreed with Robinson’s election was all over the media, protesting, holding press conferences. Those who agreed kept saying ‘no comment, no comment.’ The church, as a whole, had no story to tell. Interest groups and individuals had stories. Those who were mad at the church had a story. But the church had no story.”
One of the peculiarities of life in the Anglican Communion is that the statements of American bishops often receive greater attention from London newspapers than
If you haven’t visited our Online Advent Calendar yet, let Roy Barber, a music and drama teacher at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland introduce you to the calendar and to the program in the first video on The Lead today. And if you haven’t had a chance to meet the youth of Bokamoso, click on the second video and listen to Mapitso Kinamela tell her story.
The Times: Coming hard on the heels of the first trip to Auschwitz by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams — who was accompanied
An economist keeps a diary on what it was like to spend a week talking personal finance with young homeless mothers.
Newsweek’s Readback blog reports on “religious reaction” to its cover story on the biblical case for gay marriage. As you see, Readback’s post captures the
Huckabee was on The Daily Show last night with his new book, “Do the Right Thing.” Stewart asked why extending the benefits of marriage to
What the religious right excels at: using a minority cacophony to suck all the oxygen out of the room.