Generally, the Church only ever sees the good in the idea of community. Yet, in the name of community, all manner of nastiness and bigotry is frequently excused. Precisely because we are so focused on the sins of the first person singular, our radar is insufficiently attuned to those committed in the first person plural. It’s a moral blind spot.
“Did you feel that? It was yet another gust of hot air emanating from the Diocese of Fort Worth. Yes, our Executive Council voted almost
“The reality is that we have changed our scriptural understandings about all sorts of things, including sexual ethics,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the Austin American-Statesman. “We teach something different about contraception than we did 50 years ago. We permit remarriage after divorce … Homosexuality is the most recent in a long series of challenges.
If our contributions to the conversation are to be of value, an ethic of transparency, of honesty, needs to be upheld. As one who has used a nom de plume for many years, I understand the need some folks have to protect their privacy. However, I am encouraging those who are comfortable doing so to begin using their real names.
To launch this effort towards more tranparency, it seems appropriate to begin with myself.
Christians need to take part in risky worship that could allow “tawdry youth culture” into the church, if young people are to feel at home in the pews. Diana Greenfield of the Church Army, writes about nightclub chaplaincy, a field she describes as “untapped”. She criticises churches for their lack of work in what she says some Christians call “dens of iniquity”.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and four leaders of Protestant denominations wrote to the U. S. Congress May 10 to urge budget negotiators to preserve
Beginning next week, key congressional committees will begin drafting the 2007 U.S. farm bill, according to the Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations. The bill affects every American – and most people around the world – in one way or another. US farmers and rural communities. have an important stake in the legislation, as do hungry people in our own country and people living in deadly poverty around the world.
Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Diocese of Washington is on his way home from the two-day Oslo Conference on Religion, Democracy and Extremism. (He’s
The Board of Trustees of the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) announced that Dr. Ian Markham, dean of Hartford Seminary and professor of Theology and Ethics, will become 14th dean and president of VTS succeeding the Rev. Martha J. Horne, who is retiring after 13 years service with distinction as dean and president of the Alexandria-based seminary.
Peter Akinola, who pushed legislation in Nigeria that would have criminalized direct and indirect displays of same sex affection, in public and in private, is