Category: The Lead

Myanmar relief , Farm Bill critique

  • A reminder that Episcopal Relief and Development is in Myanmar and your help in needed.
  • The presiding bishop says, ‘the farm bill “compromise” announced by House and Senate leadership is a moral failure of the highest order … [It] corrects none of the significant inequities in the current system and, remarkably, goes further than current law in exacerbating human need around the world.’
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    The perils of the God Beat

    If even Jesus could be divisive, what can be expected of the sinners who call themselves his followers? And how about his contemporary American disciples, who sport anonymous Internet handles and spend their days trolling blogs dedicated to the disparagement of other faiths?

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    Reaching out to Rwandan women

    In today’s Nashville Tennessean, Beverly Keel tells the story of the Rev. Becca Stevens, the Episcopal chaplain at Vanderbilt University, and rector of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, who has financed Magdalene, a ministry for women with a history of prostitution and addiction, by founding Thistle Farm, a succesful line of bath and body products

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    An invitation

    If you are going to be in the Washington D. C. area on June 7, please join us at the Diocese of Washington’s Evangelism Conference, featuring a keynote presentation by Brian McLaren, who gave a preview of his presentation in an interview with the Washington Window. You can register here.

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    A gentle reminder

    We promise not to go all PBS on you and raise money ’round the clock, but it is the fund raising season, and we ask your support of our work here at the Café. Please make an online contribution here.

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    Religious trends in Britain

    The Church of England moved to discredit the research last night, criticising its methodology and saying the results were “flawed and dangerously misleading”. A C of E spokesman said: “These sorts of statistics, based on dubious presumptions, do no one of any faith any favours. Faith communities are not in competition and simplistic research like this is misleading and unhelpful.”

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    Lord Eames speaks on reconciliation

    Over the course of three days ending today, Lord Robin Eames, former Archbishop of Ireland, spoke at the Diocese of Virginia clergy conference on the subject of reconciliation. In his introduction, Bishop Peter Lee, recounted Lord Eames’ contributions for the church including the Eames Report (on women’s ordination), the Virginia Report, and the Windsor Report, and in the negotiations of peace in Northern Ireland.

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