Federal limits on refugees hitting resettlement agencies
April 5, 2017
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50% reduction in allowed refugees means cuts at Episcopal Migration Ministries and other resettlement agencies.
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Cadbury vs Easter
April 4, 2017
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Forget the “war on Christmas;” now Cadbury, the chocolate manufacturer, has allegedly taken on Easter, and the Church of England is fighting back. The Telegraph
Anglican Church in Peru seeks assistance
April 4, 2017
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The Church in Peru believes that it is in a position to continue assisting people beyond the emergency relief offered in the first moments of crisis.
In praise of sacred choral music
April 4, 2017
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Muhly describes the difference between sitting to receive the music in concert, and standing for the anthems of Evensong in St Paul’s Cathedral: “You’d be amazed how the body perceives musical detail when standing up.”
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Easter Message
April 3, 2017
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Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has released his Easter Message for 2017.
Religious Leaders weigh in as Brexit begins to take effect
April 3, 2017
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On March 29, the United Kingdom began the formal process of withdrawing from the European Union. This process could take up to two years for negotiations to be completed. As Brexit, as it’s commonly known, becomes a reality, religious leaders in the EU are expressing their concern.
Presiding Bishop Curry visits Diocese of Utah for its 150th Anniversary
April 3, 2017
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The Most Rev. Michael Curry visited the Diocese of Utah this weekend for its Diocesan Convention and celebration of 150 years of service.
The Barna Group encounters another group who don’t attend church
April 1, 2017
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The conservative research and polling group, Barna, have encountered a separate group of folks in the US who do not attend church. There is a group out there in the US who have religious beliefs and aren’t affiliating with churches. They believe in God and practice their faith on their own, apart from the Church.
Google discovers that kids foresee a bright, happy future
April 1, 2017
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Last year, we asked young artists across the US to create a doodle about what they see for the future. Congratulations to Sarah Harrison from Connecticut in the 10th – 12th grade group on being named the National Finalist of the 2016-17 Doodle 4 Google Contest for her doodle “A Peaceful Future”.
One Fifth of Millennials openly identify as LGBTQ
April 1, 2017
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Most of my life I heard about the 10%. Ten percent of any given population, in any culture, were likely a sexual minority. They fell somewhere on the Kinsey scale of human sexuality other than 100% heterosexual. It has been a real shock at how quickly things have changed in the US regarding LGBTQ acceptance in the last 20 years. We moved from the US Supreme Court striking down all of the sodomy laws in the US with the 1996 decision in Lawrence v Texas to legal same-sex civil marriage in all 50 states in the 2015 decision of Obergefell v Hodges.
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