Called to serve
July 10, 2007
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The spiritual journey of Andrea Jaeger, former tennis star, now serving as an Episcopal Dominican is featured in a video from ESPN.
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Brad Pitt and Desmond Tutu talk
July 10, 2007
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For me, I can’t imagine the Lord that I worship, this Jesus Christ, actually concurring with the persecution of a minority that is already being persecuted. The Jesus who I worship is a Jesus who was forever on the side of those who were being clobbered, and he got into trouble precisely because of that.
Be not afraid
July 10, 2007
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As a church, we need to learn once again to become risk-takers, people who take risks for the Gospel, who take risks for Christ, who take risks in the service of God and one another. We have to take risks, in order to make the journey. We discover courage by doing courageous, God-like actions.
A new blog on The Religion-Industrial Complex
July 9, 2007
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“Whether writing about a presidential aspirant’s latest play of the religion card, or an emerging issue being championed by a special interest group, or a poll showing that this community of faith supports that candidate, my goal is to write with an acute awareness of how religious and political passion can obscure and cloud … good judgment, moral reasoning, and analytical clarity.”
What would Luther do?
July 9, 2007
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Writing in USA TODAY, Mary Zeiss Strange asks: [W]ould the man whose break from Roman Catholicism involved a revolutionary rethinking of the role of sexuality in human relationships take … a negative view of homosexuality today? Most probably, given the way his theological mind worked, he would not.
Our apologies
July 9, 2007
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A story on the Church of England’s General Synod that originally appeared in this space was out of date.
What Canada did
July 9, 2007
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By agreeing that the blessing of same-sex unions is a ‘matter indifferent,’ the general synod would appear to have approved the rite, despite efforts by the bishops to stop it.
Worth worrying about?
July 9, 2007
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The Church of England’s General Synod has endorsed the concept of a covenant for the Anglican Communion. This is being treated among many of the left as a setback. But it isn’t clear that much has been lost. The covenant process has not been derailed, but its contents are far from set.
General Synod approves covenant concept
July 8, 2007
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The General Synod of the Church of England, approved, without amendment, a resolution that approves engaging the rest of the Anglican Communion to adopt an Anglican Covenant.
Abe Lincoln on avoiding a tribal God
July 8, 2007
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John Buchanan, editor and publisher of the Christian Century, has written an interesting essay reminding us of wisdom of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. In particular, it is a useful antidote to a religious tribalism that is beginning to infect political life.
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