The Rev. Dr. John Macquarrie, Episcopal priest and theologian, died May 28th from stomach cancer, according to an obituary published in today’s New York Times.
Bishop James Kelsey of the Diocese of Northern Michigan was killed in a road accident on Sunday. He was a dynamic bishop, and we will miss him. Please drop into the Café to read about his ministry, and leave a reminiscence.
The child-rearing world is profoundly ambivalent about male aggression. Should it be suppressed, cultivated, channeled? Which of these? Read Walter Kirn’s insightful essay. Then discuss.
Come Sunday, and one’s thoughts turn to sex, at least if one has been reading The New York Times. “Lately,” writes Randy Kennedy, “it seems that a slight virginal breeze has been blowing through the worlds of publishing, theater and Hollywood.”
When Hollingsworth was elected an Episcopal bishop in 2003, he, his wife and four children were offered housing by the diocese. Hollingsworth chose instead to buy a $1.66 million home with seven bedrooms, seven full and two partial bathrooms and five fireplaces across from a park in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The bishop bought the house with what he would only describe as his “personal resources.”
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, who is running for the Republican nomination for President, wrote a column in The New York Times recently defending his
The personal faith of candidates has become a very public part of the 2008 presidential campaign. Seven years after George W. Bush won the presidency in part with a direct appeal to conservative religious voters…it seems all the leading presidential candidates are discussing their religious and moral beliefs, even when they’d rather not.
When Michael McManus lauds the CANA initiative and how it preserves “freedom of choice” in his syndicated column, a reader from Spotsylvania Co., Va., explains something about the freedom of choice. “My choice, like that of the majority of Episcopalians, is to remain a member of a denomination that provides safe haven for disagreement and that entertains diversity,” writes Bill Mehr.
The Theology Committee of the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops have released a study document that is intended to be used as part of church-wide process to gather feedback for use by the House of Bishops in their September 30th meeting to respond to the Primate’s Tanzania Communique.
There’s been a number of articles in the media this week talking about the apparent dichotomy between holding to the Christian faith and a scientific