The Archive
Category: The Lead
Addicted to prayer
The capacity to make something real is not the same as the capacity to make it good or useful. That’s a caveat to bear in mind for any kind of prayerful life.
Headline: What the Episcopal Church’s position on gay marriage can teach us about the middle ground
“What Anglicanism can show the world is that commitment is to one another, not commitment to one another’s opinions,” Bishop Johnston said. “We need each other to be fully who we are. The evangelical wing of the church needs the catholic wing of the church, and vice versa. And that’s what I’m proud that Virginia is living out at this time. We need each other to be with and for each other.”
Rancher: life on his ranch on the US/Mexico border
Mary Anne Somerville writes in her “Epistle from the Desert” from Arizona: This is an interview with John Ladd, a rancher in our area, who
Historical perspective on marriage equality
Thomas M. Finn relates a brief history of marriage equality in the
Civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers dies
With fellow founding partners James E. Ferguson II and Adam Stein, along with lawyers from LDF, the firm successfully litigated a number of key cases before the Supreme Court of the United States that would help to shape evolving American civil rights laws, including: the school busing decision in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971); and two important Title VII employment discrimination cases Griggs v. Duke Power Co. (1971) and Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody (1975). The firm’s efforts were met several times with violence from white supremacists.
Keep church “uncool”
A response to the articles on making church “cool” to attract new members. Brett McCracken in the
The company that lives together is productive together
Enplug is an advertising-technology company whose office is a six-bedroom, three-bathroom Ranch-style home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles. Twelve of the company’s 37 employees, including the chief executive, live and work there—24 hours a day, seven days a week—without the commute and few outside distractions.
A new security strategy: trust over fear.
Gather millions of people from all over the world for a public event, throw in a new pope and what do you have? A security nightmare! Yet Pope Francis appeared to break all the rules for dignitaries in public