This is the story of Fr. Rick Schark, and how the experience of grieving the most profound of personal losses started him on a spiritual
“They’re silly, often irreverent and sometimes downright wicked. But The Simpsons may also be one of the most interesting examinations of religion in contemporary pop culture,” writes Kim Lawton. “The release of The Simpsons Movie is grabbing new attention for the popular animated television series that has an often surprising take on spirituality.”
It’s Labor Day Monday in America, one of those comparatively rare holidays relative to number mandated in European countries. In the UK today, they’re not
Why was there a rise in the saliance of “family values” issues in 2002 and 2004? One group of experimental psychologists think they have the answer. They have used clever experiments that suggest that that exposure to our own mortality (such as occured on September 11) will trigger a series of emotions–including a return to traditional values and distain for other cultures and races–and this can have political consequences.
A series of recent polls on the public’s view of faith and science displays a paradox: the public has immense respect for science, but rejects the views of socientists on issues like evolution. And when forced to make a choice, the public will reject science that comes into conflict with faith.
Thoughts related to God cultivate cooperative behaviour and generosity, according to University of British Columbia psychology researchers. In a study to be published in the September issue of Psychological Science journal, researchers investigated how thinking about God and notions of a higher power influenced positive social behaviour, specifically cooperation with others and generosity to strangers.
Mwamba described the decisions by Nzimba, Archbishop of Kenya, and others to consecrate clergymen from the US, as bishops in the US, as “highly regrettable” as it violated the “ancient principle of provincial autonomy by intervening in dioceses and provinces other than their own”.
Tobias Haller announces an ambitious project. [W]hat I would like to begin to do in this and succeeding posts to this blog is to begin
The Café hasn’t kept up with all of the conversations engendered by the arrest of Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho), but Unitarian minister the Rev. Deborah
In this video, Brad Powers, executive director of Jericho Road, speaks about the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana’s housing initiative that transforms under-used land, rebuilds neighborhoods and empowers communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina.