Category: The Lead

The Magazine: “Getting Ink felt right”

The things we choose to indelibly etch on our skin are unique, but carry a commonality in that they often represent the things in our lives that really matter. My tattoos remind me of what’s important to me–my relationship with God–and declare the Good News in a way words just can’t manage.

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On being priest to a murderer

In October 2011, Professor Moltmann, in Atlanta to lecture at Emory, asked Professor McBride if he could visit Ms. Gissendaner in prison. His visit coincided with a graduation ceremony for the 10 or so theology students at the prison, and he agreed to give a commencement address.

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Beyond Vestries? Is it time to change parish governance

The Episcopal Church in its local, lived expression is very good at stifling new ideas and suffocating relational groupings if it appears that such movements will threaten the establishment. Creating these checks-and-balances between Vestry and Parish Council, then, will lead both groups to become partners in the work of ministry, one paying greater attention to relational matters, the other to those more functional (and necessary) concerns of what it means to be church.

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