Seamus Carey, president of Transylvania University, reflects on what happens when a mission-driven organization forgets about mission.
What parallels are there in how we grow the church and how cities do economic development? Should the focus of our development efforts be on people or on places. That is, should we make investments in people, hoping to see them succeed regardless of where they end up? Or should we focus on investments in particular institutions, thus helping the people who are already there?
Religious doctrine and religious practice often pull apart, and there’s no reason to toss the latter out along with the former.
Cats, pathetic vis-à-vis both literacy and power, are pathetically if understandably resentful. At the liturgy, while others are glorifying the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit by both their being and their willing, cats glorify the Holy Trinity with their being or existence only — and certainly unwillingly.
A release from The Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs: Episcopal, Anglican women gather in NYC for 60th annual UN Commission meeting March 14-24 [March
Art, commissioned and invited, is telling the stories of resettled refugees at parishes in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Washington, D.C. Episcopal News Service reports on two
Curry’s “defiance of the Primates’ moral and spiritual authority has been supported by the Chairman of the ACC, Bishop Tengatenga, who has confirmed that TEC will participate fully.” – Primate of Kenya and Chairman of GAFCON
The parking lot of St. Anne’s Episcopal in Washougal, Washington, has become a sanctuary of a different sort. The Reverend Jessie Smith, vicar of St.
The Rev. Robert Palladino, priest and monk, is said to have inspired the iconic design of Apple computers’ fonts.
All five men who have joined the order since 2009 found their way to the monastery doors through the virtual portals of their Internet offerings.