Category: The Lead

Pokemon NO!

A Bishop in Italy is prepared to go to court to ban Pokemon GO, citing the game as “diabolical” and “alarming” and comparing it to

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Forget the theodicy when his own home is involved

Last year when Hurricane Joaquin was barreling down on Washington DC, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said that the storm was God’s judgement on the city because the US Supreme Court had ruled in favor of marriage equality. This week he did not claim that God’s wrath was involved in the flooding and desruction in Louisiana. This time he stated that it was an opportunity for the Church.

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First an opera singer and now the rector

Joyce Parry Moore completed an undergraduate degree in theater & voice and then recieved a graduate degree in opera performance. But as much as she enjoys the theater arts, she maintains that her true calling is the Church. The Revd Parry Moore is now the rector of St James Episcopal Church in Kent WA.

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Popping Collars #46: Devils and Deserts

Betsy, Greg, and Julie talk about the film Last Days in the Desert and discuss how a story emphasizing the humanity of Jesus reveals layers of understanding about temptation, family, desire, and destiny.

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Welsh vicar seeks to breathe new life into traditional hymns

Wales is a place renowned for its tradition of singing, but many of the old hymns aren’t heard much anymore. Inspired by a conversation with the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, The Rev Paul Bigmore, a Welsh priest, has written new words for old hymns in order to bring new life to the stirring music of traditional Welsh hymnody

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