Category: The Lead

Food for thought: folks in the US have a double standard regarding religious violence

I’ve heard it, and you probably have as well, Islam is a violent religion. Folks who claim to be Muslim, who commit violence in the name of Islam are really Muslims. And when I have responded with the idea that it is the same regarding Christians and Christianity, I encounter opposition, folks who claim to be Christian, who commit violence in the name of Christianity, aren’t really Christians.

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The Book of Comic Prayer

No, it’s not the prayer said by a comedian before going on-stage, it is a book that explores prayer through comic art written by Heather Annis, Director of Children and Youth Ministries at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Barrington, Rhode Island.

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Archbishop of Canterbury addresses General Synod

Welby calls upon the church resist the temptation of the “post-Constantinian tendency to exercise power,” and to be active participants and leaders in forging a new way of civic life; “In the necessary reimagination of our country”

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