The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size of youth populations among the world’s major religions, as well as by people switching faiths.
… a prayer for a church website, inspired by an actual church website that in the spring of 2015 still announced an event happening in 2011 on its homepage. Lord, have mercy.
The BBC begins a 3 part series with Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch on how Christianity has shaped western attitudes about sex, gender, and sexuality throughout history
The stone at the tomb was a silent witness; we are living stones, speaking witnesses: let us be clear, gentle, loving, peaceful – yet bold, fiery witnesses who in a dark world sing our song of light: “The Lord is risen, Jesus is alive, all creation is transformed.”
Over the past week, gifts have begun appearing next to the hooded figure lying on a bench, identifiable only from the crucifixion marks in his feet.
Did you give up Facebook for Lent? The Revd Audrey Scanlan, Bishop-elect of Central Pennsylvania, did. On her return, she offered some reflections via a
From the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church: The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites applications from individual scholars and academic and ecclesiastical groups
Rev. Winnie Varghese takes death from the abstract to the real-world in her Holy Week services at St Mark’s in the Bowery. What other examples of unjust death can churches use to contextualize and contemporize the Gospel?
Did you watch the American premiere of Wolf Hall? Did it hold up to the books?
Matthew and Monte Vine talk with Diane Rehm about the difficulties their family experienced when Matthew told Monte and his mother that he was attracted to other men. Together, the father and son started studying the Bible together, and the results of their study led Matthew to write and publish a book, “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships”.