The Episcopal Church has made a major commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, and Joe Nocera of the New York Times asks whether we can really end extreme poverty in Africa.
A University of Texas study, based on data from more than 10,000 Americans from adolescence through young adulthood finds that those who attend college are less likely to lose their faith than those who never attend college….
The Canadian Anglican General Synod begins a seven day General Synod to elect a new Primate and decide whether to approve same sex blessings
First the Primates of Rwanda and Southeast Asia installed an American bishop, then the Primate of Nigeria followed suit, and now the Primate of Keyna has as well. Reportedly, Archbishop Orombi of Uganda is also considering appointing an American bishop and setting up a missionary church in the United States. What does this all mean?
Writing on The American Prospect’s Web site, Paul Waldman says research shows that the more secular people there are in a county, the more likely that people from evangelical denominations who live there will vote Republican. Why, you ask?
She was one of three women in a slate of five. Should she receive consent she would be the fifteenth woman in the elected bishop in the church and one of the five youngest members of the current House of Bishops.
I was brought up with the poisonous notion that you had to renounce love of the earth in order to receive the love of God. My experience has been just the opposite: a love of the earth and existence so overflowing that it implied, or included, or even absolutely demanded, God. Love did not deliver me from the earth, but into it.
Religion is becoming increasingly visible in virtual environments such as Second Life, according to the Washington Post. And users of the popular “sim” world are creating an Anglican Cathedral there and building a community for Anglicans and Episcopalians around the world.
Here’s the real problem with American liberalism: there is no such thing. What we call American liberalism is a Frankenstein’s monster of incongruous parts – a fat, affluent, overeducated New York/Washington head crudely screwed onto the withering corpse of the vanishing middle-American manufacturing class.
Before we move into more reflective vein, here is a quick rundown of Saturday morning news developments, the most interesting of which is that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori continues to attract the attention of the largest newspaper in whatever media market she visits.