Membership numbers released
October 27, 2008
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Domestic totals for The Episcopal Church for 2007 are now public. They show a 2 percent decline in membership from 2006, and a cumulative 10
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One-sided Will rebuffed by readers
October 27, 2008
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George Will spoke to Bishop Bob Duncan and declared in his syndicated column that he is a kind of modern day Martin Luther. Episcopalians from around the country wrote letters to their editors saying “not so fast.”
The strange evangelism of conflict
October 27, 2008
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Lionel Deimel notes that one Pittsburgh area former-Episcopal parish has started their own post-card war with a neighboring Episcopal parish.
Grandmere Mimi profiled
October 27, 2008
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The Huffington Post profiles Grandmère Mimi, a blogging Episcopalian from Louisiana who has made up her mind.
The battle over Pope Pius XII
October 26, 2008
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Eight years ago, when Pope John Paul II prayed at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, there seemed to be a new level of trust between Roman Catholics and Jews. But so heavy is the historical baggage that the relationship still creaks under the strain. The latest problem is a nasty flare-up in an old argument over the role of Pius XII, who was pope during the second world war. Was he a hero who deserves to be beatified, or was he, as some Jews say, guilty of neglectful silence?
Putting the Bailout in perspective
October 26, 2008
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Nearly £2 trillion has been pledged to stabilise the banking system and start the flow of credit again. This is nearly 36 times the aid sent by the richest nations of the world to the poorest every year, and 190 times the gross domestic product of the whole of Ethiopia. We are, it seems, as profligate when it comes to solving our own problems as we are miserly when it comes to solving other people’s.
Why we can’t imagine death
October 26, 2008
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People in every culture believe in an afterlife of some kind or, at the very least, are unsure about what happens to the mind at death. My psychological research has led me to believe that these irrational beliefs, rather than resulting from religion or serving to protect us from the terror of inexistence, are an inevitable by-product of self-consciousness. Because we have never experienced a lack of consciousness, we cannot imagine what it will feel like to be dead. In fact, it won’t feel like anything—and therein lies the problem.
Why we believe
October 26, 2008
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Our greatest fear is annihilation, not physical death, necessarily, but annihilation as a person. It is the desire to avoid this that motivates us throughout our lives. For some, religion is the answer, because it tends to suggest quite straightforwardly that life carries on after death.
The coexistence of God and evolution
October 25, 2008
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The Washington Post reviews three new titles advancing the case for faith-based belief in evolution in tomorrow’s Book World: Thank God for Evolution, by Michael Dowd; The Faith of Scientists, edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry; and Saving Darwin, by Karl W. Giberson.
Sydney votes to allow diaconal and lay presidency at the Eucharist
October 25, 2008
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The Archdiocese of Sydney in Australia has broken with Anglican tradition and voted to accept a report which calls for allowing lay people and deacons to celebrate the Holy Eucharist without a priest present.
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