Ellen Davis, an Episcopal theologian at Duke Divinity School, is among the leaders of a group of scholars developing a Biblically based understanding of what
Part of how the women in our community will get medical care is by us paying for their medical insurance. We estimate it will be $5,000 per woman per year. My goal by the end of 2013 is to crowdsource funding for at least one of these insurance policies. I’m calling it the “Love Heals Challenge.”
If you haven’t yet made the acquaintance of Nadia Bolz-Weber, pastor of the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, and author of Pastrix,
Grace Episcopal Church in Brooklyn uncovered a star-filled ceiling when they restored the interior of the nave.
The Rev. Laura Everett, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, who visits many churches tweets:
A not very happy New Year for many in the U.S. Congress left town to celebrate the holidays and left millions of Americans holding the
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says that Uganda’s new anti-gay law violates the rights of bisexual, transgender, gay and lesbian (LGBT) persons.
offered by the government in South Sudan:
“I was ashamed of myself for remaining silent when the church was involved in an acrimonious debate about the whole question of gay people in the life of the church. I couldn’t live with that any longer,” he said. “I came to realize that I was only going to wither and die and it would be a destructive relationship for my wife and myself.”
St. James’ Church in central London unveiled an eight-meter-high replica of the Israeli-built concrete wall that entirely surrounds the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus. It is an effort to bring to London some of the reality of what it is like to live in Bethlehem in 2013.