Because so many of us are unfamiliar with both Islam and the Quran, we perhaps don’t know about the Quranic nativity story found in Maryam. It is a story of the birth of Jesus unfamiliar in many ways.
The Most Revd Paul Kwong is the chair of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Bishop of Dio Hong Kong and the Primate of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, the Anglican Church in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. His reflections for 2017 have been published by The Anglican Communion News Service.
Twitter debates the proper time for taking down the Christmas decorations. #Epiphany
The National Alliance for Mental Illness is working with local churches in Texas to educate and inform people about the everyday impacts of mental illness and the resources to address it.
At the brink of the New Year, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington, has issued a statement of love and inclusion, condemning racism, anti-Semitism,
Sister Frances Ann Carr, 89 years old, died this week, leaving only two left in a religious community that once embraced more than 5,000 Americans
Many people, stressed by the election and the seeming endless stream of beloved-celebrity deaths were happy to see the backside of 2016. And yet, 2017 doesn’t seem to be offering much joy. Religion Dispatches, though, is offering Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017; an article with concrete foundations for hopeful action.
In many places hard hit by IV drug addiction, churches are offering needle exchange ministries. Of the program, one local pastor says “You can’t save somebody’s soul if they’re dead.”
Episcopalians/Anglicans account for 6.5% of the 115th Congress, and 3.2% of the incoming class. We make up 1% of the general US population, according to the Pew numbers.
This is not a branch of Pentecostalism, or a development of evangelical thought, according to Horton: “It’s another religion.”